Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hatch, his heart was beating wildly, he was bathed in perspiration and panting for breath. "I've got to rest a minute," he gasped. "I'm pooped." After regaining his breath, he inched forward to Gemini's nose, which was securely locked in the docking collar of the Agena target vehicle. He straddled his ship to steady himself. "Ride'm, cowboy!" called Command Pilot Pete Conrad exuberantly. "How are you doing?" "I'm tired, Pete," the dejected Gordon admitted...
From a box behind the Agena's docking collar, Gordon pulled out the looped end of a 2-in.-diameter, 100-ft., Dacron rope, slipped it over the end of Gemini's l-ft.-long docking bar and clamped it tight. As he crawled back toward his hatch, exhausted by that seemingly simple task, perspiration temporarily blinded his right eye. With that, Conrad ordered him back into Gemini's cabin, wiping out planned exercises with a hand-held jet maneuvering gun and a power tool for tightening bolts...
...about 25% Negro. "There is no question," said City Commissioner Don Crawford, a Negro, "that Dayton is having its moment of truth today." - Negro mobs, continuing sporadic rioting started two weeks ago after the arrest of a Negro youth, threw fire bombs from buildings in Waukegan, Ill., a blue-collar community near Chicago, setting cars ablaze and burning seven people, two of them critically. After police quelled the riots, Mayor Robert Sabonjian, who has steadfastly rebuffed overtures to improve race relations, moved to cut off relief and unemployment benefits to the rioters, ordered the city housing authority to evict some...
Yorty's appeal to the voters is based partly on his skill as a hard-punching public speaker. More important, he goes after the big guns, wears no man's collar and follows a pragmatic, undoctrinaire course that arouses Californians' sense of individualism. Sam Yorty is no organization...
...rioting as mobs burned his possessions and wrecked his apartment. Some 3,000 National Guardsmen finally restored order but, from that day to this, no Negro has openly sought residence in the town that gave Al Capone haven, a suburb of Chicago that is largely populated by blue-collar workers of East European extraction...