Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have abortions they don't want. Yet when a court suit seeks to prevent them from legislating their way down all our throats and using our tax system as a means to force women to bear children they don't want, they call it a threat to civil rights...
Hemingway bought a house in Key West in 1931 and lived there nine years. While he was away covering the Spanish Civil War, his second wife Pauline built a $20,000 swimming pool in the garden fed by saltwater wells. Upon hearing the price, he took a penny from his pocket and had it embedded in the concrete, saying, "Here, you might as well have my last cent." Also in the yard is a birdbath made out of a urinal from nearby Sloppy Joe's bar. The story is that Hemingway deserved it because he had peed away...
McCrackin, 73, is a pacifist with a long history of civil disobedience. He was jailed in the early 1960s for civil rights activities, and fasted in prison for 25 days. Protesting the use of tax money to buy weapons, he refused to pay income taxes; he was convicted in 1958 for nonpayment and subsequently expelled from the Presbyterian Church, which had ordained...
Aftermath of a conflict that looked like the start of civil...
...supporters of the Ayatullah. Last week it happened. Elite troops of the imperial guard, summoned to put down a rebellion by air force cadets, ran into a wall of armed civilians. Fighting continued, sporadically but bitterly, through the weekend, and Iran seemed to be staggering toward the brink of civil war. By Sunday more than 200 people had died. At that point, the supreme army command announced its neutrality in the country's political dispute and ordered the troops back to their barracks. Support by the military was the only thing propping up the regime of embattled Prime Minister...