Word: food
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said that she could be located in a wooded area some 20 miles north east of Atlanta. The kidnapers had hidden her well. Barbara Jans had been placed in a coffinlike box which had then been buried under 18 inches of earth. Her tomb had been equipped with food, water, two flexible vent tubes which protruded above ground, a fan, and a small light which failed some hours before she was found. She had spent an estimated 80 hours underground. Still wearing the red-and-white nightgown that she had on when she was abducted, Barbara Jane was nevertheless reported...
...Angeles Herald-Examiner is technically a stalemate. Publisher George R. Hearst Jr., 41, grandson of the crusading William Randolph, still directs a staff of strike breakers inside his boarded-up building. Behind other barricades just a block away, some 50 strikers still gather each day to dispense food and subsistence checks, plot strategy and pounce hopefully on every rumor of Hearst's troubles. Actually, the strike is over-and the clear winner is George Hearst...
...encircled and hunted down infiltrators from a regiment of North Vietnamese regulars. The bag from Operation Meade River: 1,050 enemy dead v. 107 allied losses. Other units throughout South Viet Nam were engaged in similar operations, beating the woods and fields for bunkers, arms caches and stores of food and medicine...
...Optation and Copulation. By the spring of 1968, hippies had realized that Flower Power was dead. The Diggers, those altruistic dispensers of free food and medicine, had largely disbanded, LSD had given way to methedrine, and the crash pads echoed to the frenetic screams of "speed freaks"; the grisly murder of "Groovy" Hutchinson and Linda Fitzpatrick cast a pall over hippiedom. Only a small band of the movement's founders and gurus, including Hoffman, chose to form a political link with the ideological New Left. The result was the Youth International Party (YIP), which was founded at least partly...
Then there are the songs. "The Parish Boy's Progress" has nothing to sing about, but that has not stopped Composer-Lyricist Lionel Bart. Starveling orphans chant about Food, Glorious Food. Oliver asks Where Is Love? Fagin warbles, "Can a fellow be a villain all his life?" Well done? Indeed. Appropriate? In doubt. Putting trust in sounds and forms, Bart has obscured the message of "that great Christian," as Dostoevsky once called Dickens. The "demd horrid grind" is gone. In its place is solid, canny entertainment. Purists and sociologists will object as loudly as Christmas audiences will applaud...