Word: copse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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"Landlord wants us to move. He originally gave us the place for a couple of months and we've been here almost two years. It isn't political repression or anything; he just wants us to move. Besides, there's no one to organize. I can't organize secretaries, businessmen...
Do you remember the poster which said: "STRIKE FOR THE SIX DEMANDS STRIKE BECAUSE YOU HATE COPS... STRIKE TO SEIZE CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE STRIE TO BECOME MORE HUMAN... STRIKE TO MAKE YOURSELF FREE STRIKE TO ABOLISH ROTC STRIKE BECAUSE THEY ARE TRYING TO SQUEEZE THE LIFE OUT OF YOU...
True, the SDS politicos had no sense of humor. And, true, it was only when you explained the situation to yourself, not when you listened to their speeches, that their demands sounded proportional to the means they used. But the cops would probably come, so the situation would cease to...
Something there was in me that was disturbed by the happiness which came before the bust. I wanted to stay; I wanted that clean feeling of opposing cops.
Older and presumably wiser heads, shuddering from beyond the generation gap, inclined to the latter view. In Tenino, local residents tried (and failed) to get the courts to close down the festival before it opened. "The lewd and loose will swing and sway," the Dallas Morning News editorialized. Everywhere the...