Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...courthouse in a drenching rain. Clark appeared, read a court order forbidding demonstrations. The Rev. C. T. Vivian, a close King associate, berated Clark! "Maybe you're not as bad as Hitler," he shouted, "but you are an evil man!" Whereupon Clark knocked him, mouth bloodied, to the ground. Said Clark later: "If I hit him, I don't know it. One of the first things I ever learned was not to hit a nigger with your fist because his head is too hard. Of course, the camera might make me out a liar. I think I have...
...week asked: "What is naval and air superiority after all? Even if twelve American aircraft carriers are deployed in this area, it would only mean twelve more airports on the ocean. What can they do, since the outcome of the war in Viet Nam must be decided on the ground...
Argentina's long-suffering citizens are getting fed up with it all. Last week a riot erupted at Buenos Aires' Ezeiza airport when ground crews refused to unload baggage-including the wheelchair of a 14-year-old paraplegic boy. In another part of town, an enraged 65-year-old pension applicant whipped out a pistol and killed a go-slow clerk when she foisted still another form on him and suggested that he return in a few days; it was the fifth time he had been put off, and each refusal meant a 70-mile round trip from...
...nosed, forty-one-year-old Peace Corps recruiter and administrator--who says: "I don't want any saints or martyrs, people who just want to give and give and give without getting anything back. I want someone who knows what he's receiving, someone with his feet on the ground. The volunteer is going to be working his way through laziness, corruption, loneliness and self-pity; he'd better know what he's getting in return...
...over Denver, netted 48 points to achieve his goal of scoring 2,000 points (he got 2,001); of electrocution two hours later when he stopped to help at an auto accident, bumped his head into a high-voltage wire dangling 6 ft. 5 in. from the ground; in Logan, Utah...