Word: laying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kids inscribed: "Our cops are tops! With luv to the fuzz-Love-Peace-Have a successful love-in." So what's this love bit about? Well,Spreen explained, he had this idea for a 100-day love-in. For 100 days, he wanted all the wise guys to lay off the cops and give him a chance to make some changes. He said that if he had to pick one thing that could really solve the crime problem it would be love. Great, but what does it mean? Well, says Spreen, "if you care about your fellow citizens...
...religious orders available for teaching jobs. The reason is the sharp decrease in religious vocations, plus a diversification of some orders into other lines of work, like inner-city social action. A decade ago, there were three times as many nuns, priests and brothers teaching as there were lay instructors; now the numbers are just about equal...
...Vietnam while talking peace in Washington has become too familiar. No one should stand for it any more. Vietnam has become Nixon's war, and the immunity from criticism which is traditionally accorded a new President should end. Senator Kennedy was wrong in urging his fellow Democrats to lay off the Administration's handling of the war for a little longer. The Johnson-Nixon transition was so smooth because it was really no transition at all: the faces have changed, but the policies remain the same...
...course, all perfectly legal. Ray's lawyers, headed by Houston's redoubtable Percy Foreman (see THE LAW), were copping a plea. Foreman could muster no rebuttal of the evidence arrayed against his client. To allow Shelby County Attorney General Phil M. Canale Jr. to lay his case before a jury, Foreman reasoned, would, in effect, consign Ray to Tennessee's electric chair (which has not been used since 1960). Only Ray proved stubborn. Until only a few days before his trial, he still believed he would outwit the executioner...
...HUGE mirror covered one wall of the room. A few chairs were scattered around. Two tables were cluttered with empty wine bottles plastic fruit, masks, and a rubber chicken. Several large black rubber mats lay on the floor -- where the 12 bodies were stretched...