Word: camping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scout from the Broncos told me that the '49ers would use me for cannon fodder in the tryout camp," Crimson offensive tackle Bob Brooks said yesterday...
Brooks plans to attend a rookie camp with the Dallas Cowboys of the NFL on March 15. The Cowboys, the '49ers, and the Denver Broncos of the AFL are all interested in signing the All-Ivy performer as a free agent...
...Camp was a home movie of some of Warhol's friends that was so dull that even the actors in the backround weren't interested with what was going on, and we had to walk...
...they were isolated, weakened and abandoned." And until that terrible moment, there was the diabolical "tease-and-terror seesaw" psychology of the Nazis, who deliberately "cultivated the illusion that there would be a way out." Until the war's very end, for example, Nazi propagandists billed the camp at Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia as a kind of idyllic community, though for scores of thousands-including 15,000 of the more than 1,000,000 Jewish children who perished during the holocaust-it was a way station to Auschwitz's crematoria...
Despite the horror, Holocaust documents a hitherto unheralded record of resistance, even beyond the suicidal stand in the Warsaw ghetto and the sporadic concentration-camp rebellions. Jews made up 20% of the French Resistance and 30% of a Free Polish Army (in which officers and men often rivaled the Germans in their savage anti-Semitism). All through Nazi-occupied territory, Jews operated secret schools and underground newspapers. Young Boy Scouts and volunteer paratroopers from Palestine carried out rescue missions that saved thousands. Bands of Jewish fighters roamed the dense forests of Russia and Poland, though their mortality rate often reached...