Word: lot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lot had changed since Lenny Bruce last stood on a nightclub stage, and a lot of the change had resulted from Bruce's persistence in saying what he wanted to. Between 1961 and 1964 he was arrested four times for obscenity. The court battles that resulted from the arrests bankrupted him in 1965, ten months before he died with a needle in his arm. To the '70s consciousness, the specific grounds for Bruce's arrests seem absurd. He said words like "shit," "penis," "asshole" and "cocksucker," but he did not do so on television. He didn't cut records...
...think the Nickel Campaign made a lot of people mad," Joseph said yesterday. "Otis Pike (D-N.Y.) wrote a column in The Chicago Tribune saying that the Nickel Campaign served only to demean the members of Congress...
Mitford's intention in writing these memoirs, she says, was to exorcise the ghost of the Red Menace credo, and to provide an alternative to what she calls the "I-was-duped" school of ex-party members. But the result is far less weighty, and a lot more readable, than a heavy tome on the activities of the CPUSA might...
...complaints about the pitching staff have of course been a season-long beef, but are not altogether justified. Manager Don Zimmer and pitching coach Al Jackson have been a svcond guesser'b dream with a lot of their moves and Tiant has never resembled the consistent craftsman who won 20 or more games three of the last four years. But amidst all this, the staff's earned run average is still a respectable 4.19, considering Fenway Park, the designated hitter and recent expansion...
Taking over for tennis coach Corey Wynn, who has been moved over to help with the men's team, is Peter Felske, a former national junior circuit player who says the racquetwomen will do "a lot of drilling" to prepare for their October 5 opener at Wellesley...