Word: forthing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pleased with the honors, but was disappointed that he didn't place higher on the teams. Commenting on his selection to the All-New England team, Brown said that "I should have been on the first or second teams, but circumstances weren't conducive to my putting forth my best effort this season...
...days later, while rental cars full of reporters and film crews swooshed back and forth in the dust, a helicopter arrived with Senators George McGovern and James Abourezk of South Dakota, accompanied by aides to Senators J. William Fulbright and Edward Kennedy. Shortly before their appearance, the hostages, including one man with a serious heart condition, had been told that they were free to go. All were unharmed and remained-apparently by choice-in Wounded Knee. The two Senators then met at length with AIM spokesmen to discuss grievances...
Every afternoon a hundred Vietnamese pimps would drive through the post with heavily made-up whores perched on the backs of their motor bikes. They would drive back and forth, reminding me of cruising the beach in high school, until they were hailed by some G.I. We were unable to reconcile the existence of those prostitutes with the majority of Vietnamese women who wouldn't even deign to notice an American soldier, much less...
...your songs can sing what I felt in Albany better than the few words I put on paper. I remember seeing you lift your beautiful black head, stand squarely over your feet, your lips trembling as the melodious words 'Over my head, I see freedom in the air' came forth with an urgency and pain that brought out a sense of intense renewal and commitment to liberation. James Forman...
...bowl, then in fragments, from his father, who acquired it "by exchange with an amateur against a collection of Greek and Roman coins in 1920 in London." Offered earlier and more willingly, that evidence might have settled things. But by now charges and countercharges were shooting back and forth across the Atlantic. Reporters were pursuing Hecht, Sarrafian, Met Director Thomas Moving and a restorer in Zurich named Fritz Buerki, who had expertly repaired the calyx krater for Hecht...