Word: half
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said that the demonstrators-all white-first came to his attention about half way through the noon Law School class when they moved down from the back of the room and formed a ring around the lectern. Cox asked them to leave, and when they ignored him he attempted to continue the course. "We were able to raise our voices over the chants and so continue our discussion," Cox said...
When I was in Viet Nam, our battalion had a young sergeant who had been first on a battle scene where he discovered half a dozen Americans hanging upside down, tied through the ankles like deer, and castrated. The V.C. had attempted to skin their "war prisoners" like we skin animals. Cuts circled their wrists, ankles and thighs from the futile attempts. Yet I do not recall any uproars about the atrocities...
...operations. That means most departments are operating on emergency extensions of last year's level of support, and new programs are stalled. In school aid, for example, districts needed to know last summer what money would be available for this school year; although it is now nearly half over, they still cannot make plans. The financial crisis is not a mere matter of congressional sloth. The complexity of governmental financing is outrunning the ability of Congress to handle it, and the cumbersome procedure of tackling each funding twice-first to authorize the use of money for specific purposes, then...
With 50 fans cheering him on, Tarnas held off a late rally by Richard J. Baton 72 to eke out a half-pancake victory yesterday in the House dining hall...
...girl did return with a tow-truck after about an hour and a half. One and Two rode on the back of the truck and the girl and I rode in the cab with the driver. The driver was going to try to fix the car at his station, and if he couldn't, he'd take us to a Volvo dealer in Albuquerque. The girl said something to me, but for the benefit of the driver, about how she wished her "father" had gotten the car checked out before she left L. A. By this time, I was quite...