Word: loads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strange gimmick was merely a Dallas variation on schemes that have rewarded depositors with toasters and transistor radios. Tellers are busily handing out shotguns, presumably with instructions not to load the guns until safely outside...
Violence clung to the IWW; its members wore the scars inflicted by the self-righteous brutality of vigilantes. Repression and cruelty were an unavoidable part of the IWW's burden, a load that Joe Hill helped to bear. Widerberg avoids this facet of his story until the film's historical pretense forces the issue. Obliged to include such a mob action scene in the San Diego sequence, he skims over the ugliness and jolts the camera so that most of the clubbing doesn't show. Either from disinterest or squeamishness he is unwilling to deal with Joe's life...
...left us marching on the road. And said how heavy was the load . . . Won't you listen to the lambs, Bobby? They're crying for you." This appeal, in a new song by left-hearted Folk Singer Joan Baez, seems to have been answered by her friend Bob Dylan. The Minnesota-born troubadour, who in recent years abandoned his ballads of protest (Masters of War, The Times They Are A-Changin') to celebrate such bland delights as country pie and copper kettles, is out with a new single in the old angry mode, mourning the death...
...third of the present national output. At six other points along the same stretch of Mediterranean coastline, government-built resort towns are partially complete. Over the past year they have attracted 600,000 visitors to accommodations ranging from trailer parks to deluxe hotels, and by 1980 the tourist load is expected to triple, equaling that of the "old" Riviera east of Marseille...
Examples of "good and sufficient" reasons would be the desire of a student to change radically his concentration or to reduce a course load he found too demanding. Whitlock said...