Word: guttered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nothing to say about all the lives that went down the gutter of history or now populate prisons and asylums because of the New Left's "wisdoms" and its rock troubadours. He lists the end of the war and the draft, the wide acceptance of marijuana, and women's liberation as the New Left's enduring accomplishments. Whether these will positively shape the course of the future remains to be seen. Mr. Morrow seems unbothered by long-range outcomes. He comforts and encourages the radicals that their "cycle will surely come around again...
...ghettos gradually returned to normal. On some streets there was almost a sense of camaraderie between the cops and the black and Hispanic youths. Some of the officers in Bedford-Stuyvesant swung their long riot sticks like golf clubs, sending tin cans and other debris flying out of the gutter. "Hey, man," called out a black youngster with a chuckle, "your grip is all wrong." In the South Bronx, a brightly lit Ferris wheel slowly revolved in the night sky, its two-passenger chairs filled. Sporting shiny new Adidas jogging shoes, a young teenage boy in Harlem said with...
...size of the gutter system is very important because a good gutter will keep the surface waves down and thereby increase the swimmer's speed. Also important, and present in Cleveland, is good lighting--a must to be able to execute good turns, the key factor in short races. Some people also feel the deeper a pool is the faster it is. Orscheidt said, however, it is mostly psychological...
...famous salon keeper of the day. She elicited a series of poetic love letters-including To She Who Is Too Gay and The Spiritual Dawn. When, after five years, Apollonie wrote him a valentine, Baudelaire cut and ran. He could put a woman on a pedestal or in the gutter, but there was no middle ground. "I have odious prejudices about women," he confessed...
Those of you who didn't make it to hear Bob the Bagman--the twenty year veteran of Boston-area bumming--on the view from the gutter really missed something. Although, as one spectator put it, Bob's twenty years on the streets have given him a "detached mental process," his opinions were original and stimulating. After graduating from Purdue, Bob kept his mind agile by "sleeping close to the ground, where the air is richer." (Beware, apartment dwellers.) Like Socrates, he wandered across the land expounding his simple rules of living. He listens to the birds, and "smartest animals...