Word: bayed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Massachusetts to Oregon instituted Martin Luther King scholarships for black students; Berkeley and Stanford pledged to double their minority-group enrollment by 1969, and more than 30 Stanford professors agreed to donate 10% of their salaries to a King fund. A group of San Franciscans moved to rename the Bay Bridge for King, reasoning that "he himself spanned the gap between black and white...
...burst of discovery, the U.S. record-buying public is making it up to Redding for a side he made only 21 weeks before his death, Dock of the Bay. Surprisingly, Dock of the Bay is restful and reflective, whereas previous songs, like Shake and Try a Little Tenderness, were exuberant, even ecstatic. But it is no less authentically soulful, and its ironic air of premonition is not lost on the kids, either...
Left my home in Georgia; headed for the Frisco Bay. I have nothin' to live for; look like nothin' gonna come my way. So I'm just gonna set on the dock of the bay; watch the tide roll away...
Released posthumously in January, Dock of the Bay has already sold 1,400,000 copies, and was No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Chart last week for the fourth straight week. "All this acclamation for Otis is new," says Atlantic Records Executive Vice President Jerry Wexler. "It's his epitaph, and it proves that a singer can do his own thing and still be commercially successful. Otis is tremendously responsible for the fact that so much of the young white audience now digs Soul the way the black does." In the vaults are 40 or so sides...
...count, ten people, hundreds of cattle and horses, and whole flocks of chickens have been killed in unprovoked attacks by the queens' offspring. Dogs, cats, turkeys and pigs have died. Last month a swarm descended on a group of children playing in a park in Niteroi, across the bay from Rio. Firemen had to fight them 1 with flamethrowers. In another city a police dog diverted a swarm attacking his eight-year-old master, saving the boy but dying of multiple stings a half-hour later...