Word: exception
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...easy to spot: they tend to have paunches and wear white socks and the black shoes that are part of the regulation police uniform. But since the Hippie Squad is part of Fink's protection program, the kids don't seem to mind having the fuzz around, except when they bust a pot or acid party...
Willkie Wrangle. One of the ways Luce meant to realize the American vision was to elect Wendell Willkie President in 1940. Though neither he nor his publications formally endorsed Willkie, all of them gave Willkie substantial aid and comfort. All, that is, except TIME. T. S. Matthews, then TIME'S NATIONAL AFFAIRS editor, made repeated fun of Willkie's campaign. "Spreading rapidly through professional ranks was the belief that maybe Willkie was only a fatter, louder Alf Landon. He still drew curious crowds. As one sad Old Guardsman pontificated to another: dead whales on flat cars also attract...
Dartmouth football coach Bob Blackman hoped that Neal might be spending his college years in Han-over. But Neal's father was more convincing and told Dale, "I can't see one advantage that Dartmouth has over Harvard except for woods and trees...
...Johnson is still willing to wait for strategic concessions, the end of the bombing will do little except make an inhumane war one notch less destructive. The United States must face the fact that the NLF has earned a right to a place in any post-war government; and it must recognize that should that government go communist, the whole free world will not collapse in a heap...
...Tennessee and North Carolina, dozens of small fundamentalist churches regularly include the handling of rattlers or copperheads as part of their services. How many snake handlers there are is not really known. Generally they are as secretive as moonshiners, and for much the same reason: the cult is illegal except in West Virginia...