Word: froing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...went. One day 355 Negro students locked arms on the sidewalk outside the courthouse, rocked to and fro while singing traditional civil rights songs, changing some of the words so as to include the name of Sheriff James Clark, the particular villain in the Selma drive. "I love Jim Clark in my heart," they sang, and "Ain't gonna let Jim Clark turn me 'round." Clark placed them all under arrest, but he provided no buses. Instead, he ordered them to follow two motorcycles in a Pied Piper procession through the center of Selma to the armory, where...
...with big game, including Prince Philip and the Sheik of Kuwait. Though Mills says "I wouldn't dare" change the zebra's stripes, he is adding a few jolly wrinkles: discotheque, a Rolls-Royce with bar, and a Bentley to carry his more diffident guests to and fro...
...lobbed to and fro Between...
...result: a versatile, sure-fire way to convert every conventionally rigid fabric in the world into stuff that stretched up and down, back and forth, to and fro, and never once ran out of breadth. Accordingly, a whole new galaxy of stretch fabric appeared, all developed around a spandex core, ranging from brocade to burlap, taffeta to twill. Not all of them cling to the skin, but the stretch qualities let them give when and where they have...
...Rockers. Margate was the Mods' big chance to assert their virility. At dawn on Sunday, armed with ripped-off legs from beach chairs, stone-hurling Mods charged their rivals, injuring two policemen who tried to intervene. As police reinforcements poured in, the battle surged to and fro along the beach, then spread into Margate's streets. Two youths were stabbed, dozens injured by brass knuckles, flying stones or milk bottles, and Rockers' studded belts; in two days, 69 were arrested...