Word: hoods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President laughed about Hood's boys at last getting a hot breakfast at Antietam when they were interrupted by a Union charge; they were so mad that they stopped the superior Yankee force in its tracks. Carter was tickled by the account of how the cannons at Antietam stirred up the hives of bees kept by the farmers. One Pennsylvania regiment had 127 bee stings. The President leaned on the bridge over Antietam Creek where General Burnside with four divisions had been stalled for hours by Robert Toombs with a few hundred of those beloved Georgian sharpshooters...
...week's end, as Carter headed to Texas to watch 2nd Armored Division maneuvers at Fort Hood along with Brown and Secretary of the Army Clifford Alexander, he continued to emphasize the idea of harmony in his Administration's policymaking. At a Chamber of Commerce luncheon in Fort Worth the day before the maneuvers, Carter told an audience of 5,000: "There is overwhelming cooperation and compatibility between Secretary Vance, Dr. Brzezinski, Harold Brown and others who help me shape foreign policy...
...stopped by his parents' home in Newton, Mass., for dinner before attending the wedding rehearsal. His father was going to give him money from stock sales, and his sister wanted to borrow his guitar. No sooner had his father greeted him, he says, than three men tied a hood over his head and wrestled him into a truck. After being driven for about an hour, he found himself prisoner in an attic. There he was kept awake for 36 hours and fed only a matzo and a piece of chicken. Day and night young Jewish activists angrily tried...
...slums of New York City and Newark, the project took some nine months and posed hazards for Producer-Director Helen Whitney, whose voice can be frequently heard questioning the show's young subjects. Her purse was stolen during one interview, and she was slammed against the hood of a car during a street altercation. The menace is often palpable. When Whitney asks a group of young men where they draw the line at violence, one replies heatedly: "Ain't no limit. If I gotta kill you to get what I want, I'll kill...
...smaller ice cream stores in the Square use a commercial mix base for their ice cream because the equipment needed to make ice cream from scratch costs half a million dollars, Citron said. The mix is supplied by large commercial concerns such as H.P. Hood...