Word: flints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this flint-eyed, wild-talking pothead could do it, the smart money reasoned, why couldn't any flint-eyed, wild-talking pothead do it? The Easy Rider fashion caught on, lank hair and sideburns became Hollywood's uniform of the day, and a new era was proclaimed...
...Robert Flint Chandler Jr., Sc.D., director of the International Rice Research Institute. When Christians are being called to rediscover the moral imperatives of the Gospel, what more can we say of a man than that he has fed the hungry...
Food Stamps. Retailers are finding business rough around Detroit, Flint and other G.M. centers in Michigan. J. L. Hudson's, the big department store chain, has reduced its staff by 10%. But hardware and lumber stores are doing well supplying the strikers, who now have plenty of time to finish a recreation room or repair a back porch. The strikers have difficulty locating part-time jobs. In Atlanta, several have taken temporary jobs distributing leaflets in shopping centers. One enterprising man sold a cartful of apples outside the local union hall...
...opened the top. He rolled the flint: three times trying to light a flame. And then, very slowly, on the third try, the wick ignited. Did they understand what was about to happen? Had they really been watching? Was there time left; the magician was opening the black box. He was taking out the butterfly and holding it up by its wings. His hands moved together slowly, until the butterfly was aflame and burned away in an instant...
...defendants, only four are in custody. Rudd and eight others are fugitives. The indictment carries the clear implication that police succeeded in infiltrating the security-conscious movement. It was learned that undercover men for both the New York City police department and the FBI attended the Flint meeting. But Justice Department officials were not optimistic about bringing all the defendants to trial soon. "We expect to arrest some of them, but we will probably not get them all," said Will Wilson, head of the Justice Department's criminal division...