Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Equal pay for equal work? Fight like the devil for it. Burn your bras (if you don't sag). But, please, don't deny your femininity; it is a part of your significance as a human being (it is not nearly all of your worth, although some of my sex seem to think it is). And, I beg of you, do not throw your children into day-care centers; she (he) needs you. Rearing a child is no menial task, but is too momentous to be subordinated and too important to fail. Its importance and difficulty should...
...pack, she cautioned as a good stewardess should: "You can't smoke now. We are about to land." The guerrilla had no intention of smoking. Instead, while the giant Clipper was still 100 feet off the ground, he lit the fuse to his explosives. As the fuse began to burn, the hijackers told the passengers: "You have eight minutes." But Captain Priddy, captive in his cockpit, knew none of this. Landing in early-morning blackness at an unfamiliar airport, he might have elected to abort the approach and go around for another landing. Fortunately...
...they began to make films in their own country. Amazingly, they have not had a loser yet, if only because the budgets are so slender, emphasizing short shooting schedules and minimum salaries for all. The only way Cannon could lose money on any of its films would be to burn the negative. The prospects for Joe and for Cannon are so rosy that MGM recently offered to buy not only the movie but the company as well. MGM was rebuffed on both counts...
Apart from its local merchants, who are not exactly ecstatic Bowie (pop. 40,000) is genuinely convinced that the fever of Earth Day can burn all year. Some people in the container industry agree. Reynolds Metals Co., for example, is offering $200 a ton for discarded aluminum cans in the Los Angeles and Miami areas, and the Glass Container Manufacturers Institute, which represents most of the country's major glassmakers, has launched a nationwide campaign to buy back discarded bottles at a penny a pound...
Collective Jeopardy. The end of the pursuit raised some of the same questions-moral and law-enforcement-as the original act. In joining a group of protesters to burn draft records at Catonsville, Md., Berrigan clearly broke the law. His defenders argue, however, that others have committed similar acts without being arrested and that the authorities may be singling out the more prominent offenders...