Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...answer is to plan their lives, in the phrase they often use, "for the time being." But barring a total clamp down on personal liberties, most plan to return eventually, particularly the intellectuals. "None of us has the right to do what we did, then leave when things blow up in our faces," says Journalist-Writer Antonin Liehm. "After all, we started...
Introducing the show on the air, the able and affable Harry Reasoner explained that it was an attempt to bring to television the flexibility and diversity of the printed page. The show in fact used blow-ups of printed pages as backdrops, and it employed at least one familiar example of magazine terminology: the "cover story." On the whole, the opening show amounted to a good cub reporter's try. Sound cameras caught some revealing glimpses and comments of Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey as they sat self-consciously before their TV screens during the G.O.P. and Democratic Convention...
...ensued. Students started sleeping over-night in the schools to keep the police out. On August 1 at 2 a.m., the Mexican army surrounded one of the high schools. The more than 100 students sleeping there were told to leave. When they refused, an army bazooka was used to blow open one of the doors. The army then marched in and forcibly pulled out the students. 20 students were hurt and three or four were killed. The army took the bodies of the dead students and burned them -- afterwards claiming that no one was killed. As far as the army...
...voting, and -with just two weeks remaining before Inauguration Day -could throw the election into the House of Representatives. Political Scientist James MacGregor Burns says of the U.S. electoral process: "It's a game of Russian roulette, and one of these days we are going to blow our brains out." Most Americans might agree with Burns' appraisal if only they understood how the process works...
...John Lee Hooker, Bo Diddley). Later, they pioneered in pop-art costumes, such as jackets made from Union Jacks. Then they began literally breaking things up-and probably inspired the guitar-burning antics of Singer Jimi Hendrix as well as the Yardbirds' memorable discotheque scene in the film Blow...