Word: jointing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...asked the soldiers, in sign language, if they wanted to smoke. They nodded enthusiastically. As we pulled up again, he climbed out the window; we had to hold his legs to keep him from falling out. He lost his Army cap to the wind-but the soldier got the joint. We jumped up and down in our seats; everybody cheered. Then we passed their truck, and we never saw them again...
LAST WINTER an album appeared on A and M records entitled The Fantastic Expedition of Dillard and Clark. The jacket featured a hill-billy type on a motorcycle passing a joint to another in a sidecar. That picture is almost a visual description of the music on the inside, a very gentle blend of C and W and rock. Generally the term Country and Western calls up images of excruciatingly sentimental lyrics with a fiddle and banjo contest going on in the background. But the arrangements on Expedition (songs written mostly by the musicians Gene Clark and Doug Dillard) combine...
...Cairo, Gamal Abdel Nasser exhorted the Arabs to prepare to fight against Israel "a battle of destiny on a sea of blood under a blazing sky." Also, in Cairo, representatives of 13 Arab states, convening as the Joint Arab Defense Council, gathered to discuss ways of mobilizing their resources for the struggle against Israel. There, too, talks between Lebanese officials and leaders of the Palestine Liberation Organization ended in a cease-fire between the guerrillas and the Lebanese army-the result of which is that the fedayeen will now be able to continue using Lebanon as a base from which...
Once the U.S. and Soviets arrive at a joint proposal, they will present it to France and Britain. But even if the Big Four can finally reach accord on a peace plan, there is no guarantee that either the Arabs or the Israelis will accept...
...continuing pride in this Faculty, viewed simply as a body of scholars, has survived, and will survive, and will survive, quick flashes of pain or incredulity. Those things pass. A host of friendships do not, nor do memories of joint efforts to achieve many worthwhile ends. I beg license only to urge the Faculty, as it goes about reorganizing itself, not to ignore-as one problem among many-the matter of incentives for those it expects to serve it, at whatever level of administration...