Word: burned
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Negro, I, too, must bear my share of the shame and horror of Dr. King's untimely death. Whether I burn or kill (by God's grace, I hope to do neither), I am associated with those who do. And we dare to point indiscriminate accusing fingers at whites. The answer to whether Dr. King labored in vain will not be determined alone by the success or failure of civil rights legislation or by improvement of housing and economic opportunities for minorities, but also by the degree to which all of us, blacks and whites, are committed...
...caused a ruckus when the students' spotted the newsmen unpacking half a dozen posters with pro and con war slogans. Later, a spokesman for KNBC admitted that the posters were intended as "colorful additions to the set." On other occasions, a TV cameraman induced protesters to burn a city bus, while another persuaded two hippies to attempt to block President Johnson's entrance into a Washington club...
...continued Lerner, is "composed of equal parts of authentic sorrow, of guilt feelings and the fake-hypocritical. There are blacks who, after his death, made a mystique of destroying the cities he wanted to save, and there are whites so guilt-ridden and impassioned that their feeling about the burning cities is 'Let them burn.' " Expression of anger is understandable, but the "prolonged assault" against the city of Washington could "no longer be explained as a catharsis but only as the beginnings of an adventurist effort at guerrilla...
...reported that "tanks" were rumbling down New Hampshire Avenue, when in fact they were simply personnel carriers. More recklessly, at the peak of the riot scare, rock-'n'-roll station WABC in Manhattan broadcast on-the-street interviews with Harlem agitators. Cried one: "We were planning to burn down your part of town anyway, but now we can take the whole thing this summer! I want to kill anybody I know who is against anything that's good...
...children have been exposed entirely too much to sex. The parents still have a great amount of sex attraction for each other and hide nothing from the children." 2. Mother has been known to have psychosomatic complaints and poor health care follow-up. Brutality to child in past, burn on girl's face...