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...members of the gang and other youth in Woodlawn. The Rangers wield more power in Woodlawn than any civil rights group or social action committee. It is estimated they can mobilize 1000 youth within an hour to picket or kill. In destroying the gang, the police would extinguish a torch...

Author: By Charles Sklarsky, | Title: Chicago's Loud Revolution: The Blackstone Rangers | 4/29/1967 | See Source »

...fanaticism. The scene is the dirt-road South outside the progressive and prosperous mainstream of U.S. life. In a modern U.S. city, there is no place outside of the psychiatric ward for the hero of Wise Blood, a gaunt drifter who blinds himself the better to see God and extinguish the devil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Concern for Truth | 1/13/1967 | See Source »

...veins is easy enough: the swollen and tortuous blood vessels stand out in bold relief on the victim's legs. Deciding on treatment is something else, and the choice is most likely to depend on the doctor's nationality. In U.S. hospitals, the preferred approach is to "extinguish" the offending veins by stripping them out in tedious operations that take up to twelve hours and leave the footsore surgeon himself a candidate for varicose veins. In Europe, doctors reach for hypodermics, hoping to harden the veins and cure the trouble quickly with simple injections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Phlebology: Varied Choice for Varicose Veins | 11/4/1966 | See Source »

Firemen pulled hoses across the Holyoke Center plaza, into the bank building and downstairs to extinguish the burning refuse. They brought the fire under control almost immediately...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fire at Holyoke Scars Basement | 10/25/1966 | See Source »

...laud your Essay. At last somebody has defended war as the expedient it can sometimes be in solving international problems. Too many pacifists and bleeding hearts have vilified war in favor of negotiations, when in some cases water, not words, is needed to extinguish fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 1, 1965 | 10/1/1965 | See Source »

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