Word: fight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flag" and a "Viet Cong flag." Some witnesses state it was a suit of red underwear or a red armband or a rag. On films of the incident, it appears to be "a knotted red cloth or a girl's bright red slip." Police, after a hard fight, pulled down the object, but not even the cops know what it was or what happened...
...long ago, Sinclair said of his life: "I don't know whether anyone will care to examine my heart, but if they do, they will find two words there-'social justice.' For that is what I have believed in and fought for." He fought that fight well and effectively. Last year, in recognition of his pioneering role in advocating consumer-protection legislation, Lyndon Johnson invited him back to the White House for the first time since his lunch with Teddy Roosevelt. Fittingly, the occasion was the signing of the Wholesome Meat Act, which filled the few remaining...
...really remembers the good old days? Bicycle chain fights? Beating up the teacher? Ducktail haircuts? The days before everyone walked around alienated, and after that, the days that everyone walked around stoned? Who remembers what it was like to not worry about getting busted? Who can tell me, who can think back and tell me about the days before acid was invented? I know, for a fact, that every single American boy has at one time rolled up the sleeves of his teeshirt to look studlier as he walked downtown; that every chick has snuck up her hems in junior...
...MEASURE of the interest generated by Bill Baird's fight against Massachusetts birth control laws might be the scarcity of copies of the brief submitted in his defense...
...Narrowing Path. Paradoxically, uncertainty has also helped to create the polarization that is one of the dominant facts of America today. Those attached to the old ideas and ideals cling to them even more tenaciously; those attracted to the new fight for it with greater energy. The path narrows between the new and the old. Today, says Astronomer Walter Orr Roberts, director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, "it is necessary to live with enough conservatism to resist the easy abandonment of concepts, but enough flexibility to be able, when necessary, to switch rather than fight...