Word: halloween
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...that catalogues forms of harassment to be used on suspected foes. Among other tactics, it recommends pouring sugar into gasoline tanks, dumping snakes, dead rats or decapitated chickens into mailboxes. To "obscure the deadly seriousness of our work," the circular suggested, the Knights should refer to such ploys as "Halloween pranks"-enough, in Klan verbiage, to make any night Dark Day in Weird Week of Month Sorrowful...
...momism, nepotism, space-age technology, dirty old men, antiSemitism, anything. They treat the audience to a series of small, distasteful shocks, but as black comedy gives way to bald effrontery, even the shock wears off The Loved One seems as crude and pointless as a schoolboy's Halloween prank like tipping over tombstones or throwing a stink bomb into the parsonage...
...fighting their battle. He saves almost all his editorial barbs for the racists, castigating in unpadded phrases his state, his town, and his friends for their intransigence, stupidity, and the rest. His life is in constant danger. The phone threats often go on all night. Each year, sure as Halloween, comes the attempt of some irate group of Greenvillians to start up another paper and put the DD-T, a plague for thirty years, out of business once...
...with Herbert Hoover in 1946 organized the United Nations' International Children's Emergency Fund, which now operates as a health, education and welfare program in 116 nations on a $30 million annual budget, more than $2,000,000 of which it gets from "trick or treat" Halloween boxes and $2,250,000 from its Christmas and greeting cards; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...ADDAMS FAMILY (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Halloween with the Addamses is suitably ghoulish when Morticia and Gomez welcome bank robbers to their cobweb-hung manse as trick-or-treaters...