Word: grinders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Urban Center in Brooklyn, learned firsthand about ghetto justice by spending an afternoon in court with his youthful tutor. "That damn judge," he said, "was handing down decisions he made before he ever saw the facts. It was like processing hamburger meat, just put it in the grinder." Tom Carey, of North Hennepin State Junior College in Minnesota, says of his one-month exposure to the streets: "I have been turned inside...
...current exhibit, Spock has remodeled an old auditorium. One result is "Grandfather's Cellar," a nook that introduces children to the world their grandparents knew. It contains a washtub with hand wringer, a coffee grinder, butter churn, mechanical apple peeler and a 1927 Atwater-Kent radio-all in working order. In the Algonquin Indian exhibit, children who once learned about Indians by watching a movie and looking at artifacts now grind maize in stone mortars, chip arrowheads and munch dried berries...
...local authorities for obscenity. At the festival, the troupe's musicians, who call themselves the "Gorilla Band," offered a blatantly sardonic, nose-thumbing rendition of favorite American songs like Yankee-Doodle The plays included an antiwar skit with the central image of a crutch topped by a meat grinder, a 15th century farce about the evils of the profit system and a puppet show featuring little black panthers and a little white "fuzz...
Pilkington, sole survivor of the 24 glassworks that thrived in Britain in the 19th century and then died because of competition, made its first major contribution to the industry in 1935 by developing a grinder that smoothed both sides of the glass simultaneously - until recently the common method for finishing flat glass. But grinding scoured off 20% of the finished glass, and something better was needed. In 1959, after seven years and $20 million worth of research, Pilkington announced a float process for making sheet and plate glass that revolutionized the industry. In it, glass forms while floating...
...G.O.P. blows its chances in 1968 with a ho-hum compromise candidate, someone in the party hierarchy will see the light. It would be a pleasure to see Mr. Buckley take on Bobby Kennedy in 1972: then there would be no way for the baloney to reject the grinder. RICHARD KRASKA Providence...