Word: crapping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Their greatest problem was a lack of communication. One student said he stripped himself bare of all conventional courtesies, refusing to participate in the "trivial conversations, the crap that fills up everyone's day." He could not bring himself to make efforts to fill silences. His roommates were objects on the periphery of his consciousness...
That's why I'm looking forward to being in the army as opposed to Harvard. Because there I can work and get exercise and although I'll have to take crap and people will order me around all the time, my mind will be free. Nobody there is going to make use of my mind. What will be required of me will be crude enough so I can stand outside of it. Whereas here what's required of me is the utilization of my most personal and most difficult ability--the ability to reform my mind...
...overwhelming evidence that the V.C. barrage is backfiring badly. Black American soldiers are not flattered by such wooing. "It's a bunch of jibe," says Negro Platoon Sergeant John F. Foulks. "I read it-and forgot it." Other Negro soldiers get angry. "Where was all this brotherhood crap when my friends got killed?" asks SP4 Gerald Walker...
...full of crap as I am." When hecklers mustered the temerity to shout "Publicity hound!" at him, Mailer managed to pronounce flawlessly his all-purpose noun, verb and expletive...
...fair shake. Then abruptly last week Nevada's gambling industry found its image marked with two black eyes; the state Gaming Control Board closed the big Lake Tahoe Hotel Casino after detecting crooked dice-the second casino in a month to be shut down for running a rigged crap game...