Word: club
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During his three-day visit, Sanders will be associated with Adams House. Today, he meets with the officers, fellows, and associates of the Institute. He will also talk with members of the Young Democrats and Southern Club of the College and Law School...
Wall of Foam. For most U.S. police, the only such weapon now available is the old-fashioned billy club-and the trouble is that many policemen are surprisingly unskilled...
When used as a club, the billy too often shatters on a suspect's skull, forcing a policeman to resort to his gun. The billy is better used to poke and jab at the kidneys and other vulnerable areas; law-enforcement experts are now urging more and better training in billy arts. Indeed, the billy itself can be improved...
During the '20s, Georgina dances in a kind of Cotton Club revue up in Harlem until the Depression, presumably white-inspired, puts her out of work. The never-aging lovers tiff as Clem takes up the cause of the Negro, while Georgina relentlessly pursues her personality cult to stardom. In a phenomenally unsurprising ending, Clem, now a civil rights leader, clinches with Georgina, who has tasted the empty celebrity worship of white sycophants...
...pump gas station into a rich drilling and trucking operation-and then put fishermen everywhere in his debt with another natural resource, Panama's Pinas Bay, where, starting in 1963, he spent some $2,000,000 to turn an isolated patch of Pacific coastline into the handsome Club de Pesca de Panama, which, with its own amphibious plane service and a 15-boat fleet, opened the world's greatest marlin grounds to thousands of delighted anglers; of a heart attack...