Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Despite the security that surrounds him he has managed to be hit on the head with a sign and punched by a policeman; he has dropped in uninvited for coffee at a stranger's house; he has talked to newsmen while taking 20-lap tours around the White House lawn...
Judge Alfred Toscano, seemingly more in sorrow than in anger, then imposed a fine of $250 each. Dr. George Hughes, on whose lawn the main party had been held, chose to fight, along with the two co-hosting couples. Their lawyers filed various demurrers and motion for dismissal, and the judge set hearings for next week...
...refutation is that some of the jests are funny (for example, an Extremist Literacy Test with questions like "Define the following words: Defoliation: 1. Mowing the lawn. 2. Taking a girl's virginity. 3. Blowing the bejeezus out of North Viet Nam," but not many. Only about 50 cents' worth...
...Freedom School was to begin on Thursday, July 2. On Wednesday, about 25 teachers and registration workers roamed the streets of Holly Springs telling everyone they met that Freedom School would begin at 9 a.m. the next day. Because no building was available, classes were to be on the lawn of Rust College (a Negro liberal arts college, across the street from the freedom house). And because no one had any idea of what a freelom school was, the prospective teachers simply told their prospective pupils that the school would be "great...
...Freedom School was to begin on Thursday, July 2. On Wednesday, about 25 teachers and registration workers roamed the streets of Holly Springs telling everyone they met that Freedom School would begin at 9 a.m. the next day. Because no building was available, classes were to be on the lawn of Rust College (a Negro liberal arts college, across the street from the freedom house). And because no one had any idea of what a freedom school was, the prospective teachers simply told their prospective pupils that the school would be "great...