Word: build
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There are two lessons to be drawn from this intergroup backbiting. First, it is obvious hat the moderate-radical coalition which produced Vietnam Summer is an uneasy alliance. The moderates, like CNC, tend to concentrate in middle class areas trying to trying to build a peace bloc. But the radicals deplore electoral politics--they don't believe the U.S. will ever vote itself out of Vietnam. Since they are convinced that the System can't solve the problem, they seek the aid of those who will be most likely to take action outside the System. They organize in the ghetto...
...right to build a tree house and do what he wants with it," retorts a Riverhead housewife, Mrs. Robert Hulse. The Hulses have been threatened with a summons after ignoring two official complaints that their son Gregory's tree house is too close to the street. When another parent, William Sypher, received a notice for building without a permit, his two sons tacked a sign "Bird Feeding Station" on the house and nailed on feed pans-but the ruse failed and the notices kept coming...
...children spend hours playing in it," says Sypher's wife Doris, who is prepared to fight the code in court, if necessary. "They build new things into the tree house to make it over into what ever their imaginations believe it is. How can it meet building specifications when the boys continually change...
...survive even the unfortunate cast of academic language employed by the author, a British scholar and an editor of the Oxford Times. To some extent, the Wobblies were the progenitors of today's New Left. They shared the same detestation of contemporary society and the same desire to build a better world...
...City Council voted Wednesday night to appropriate $50,000 for a private firm to collect the City's rubbish and to build an incinerator to dispose...