Word: got
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...police might have hangovers the next day, which would make them irritable." But no. As it turned out, the "more inactive" police "were amused by the whole scene, especially since they were under orders not to intervene when they could avoid doing so." In fact, when a demonstrator got caught in the crush, unable to light his cigarette, a bobby "reached forward and politely struck flame from his lighter." The police, she reports, "even joined the demonstrators in singing Auld Lang Syne." All in all, "we witnessed in the Demo something like a medieval carnival in modern setting, with everybody...
...mustache walked into a television studio in Manhattan. Someone handed him a Schick electric razor, lights blazed, and the director cued ACTION. Three minutes later, New York Jet Quarterback Joe Namath, 25, was barefaced, having whizzed off a two-month growth for a TV commercial. Word is that Joe got $10,000 to part with his shrubbery, which would make it $16.67 for each of the approximately 600 hairs that hit the studio floor. And that isn't all. "I can scramble better now," said Namath. "I'm a little lighter...
...Trapp directed her tree be festooned with homemade cookies-even sent the recipes along. But no one could hold a Christmas candle to Songstress Pearl Bailey who, when asked what she wanted on her tree, replied "Just gobs and gobs of pearls, honey." And gobs is what she got: $25,000 worth of cultured pearls-3,500 in all-dress up Pearlie Mae's tree...
...While at Leavenworth, he brought a lawsuit against the warden and the chief medical officer. Both, he contended, had ordered "unqualified inmates" to inoculate him with a drug that gave him permanent injuries. Claiming that they were acting "under color" of federal office at the time, the two men got their case removed from a state to a federal court...
...labor), and he was uninterested in what he considered an irrelevant curriculum. Taylor organized a group called the "Modern Strivers." With the help of George Rhodes, Washington's assistant superintendent for secondary schools, the Strivers worked out a written proposal for their own freedom school.* They raised funds, got the loan of two floors in a church-owned building and a promise of volunteer bus service from Washington's Urban League...