Word: hoods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Single Lane. In Charleston, W.Va., Mrs. James A. Haught complained to police that three horses trotting along U.S. 35 stepped on her Volkswagen, dented the roof and hood, twisted the radio antenna...
...compulsory membership in the Reserve Officers Training Corps. Pacifist groups sometimes exploit the protest, as they did in the pre-World War II days; but the real complaint is the U.S. Army's archaic training course on campus. While wags deride the jazzy new forest-green uniform ("Robin Hood's Men"), those who wear it resent long hours of playing doughboy with World War I machine guns. Last week dissidents were stirring up many a state university campus. Samples...
...funeralwise" at the service. Falling to pieces, he asked the operator to try Dr. Albert Schweitzer in French Equatorial Africa to see if he would make a house call. Opening a phial of sleeping pills, he named each one as he swallowed it: Little Red Riding Hood, Hansel, Gretel, the Three Bears. Toasting all the friends he never called back on the telephone, he turned the phial bottoms up and swallowed the rest of his life...
Among the other visiting educators this summer are William Foxwell Albright, Professor Emeritus of History at Johns Hopkins University; Mantle Hood, associate professor of Music at U.C.L.A.; and Philip Rieff, associate professor of Sociology at the University of California...
...paper permanently. "Flyface and his mother were bad enough," said Fields, "but the nephew with all those flies! It's enough to make anybody sick." Told of Tracy's exit from the Constitution, Cartoonist Gould, possibly borrowing inspiration from another of his current characters-Fifth, a hood who invokes the Fifth Amendment even in casual conversation-said nothing...