Word: milles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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April 20: At another four-hour meeting. SDS members voted to "mill in" at University Hall. The mill-in was proposed as a "building tactic, and not as an ultimate step, one of the proponents said...
April 21: Four hundred students took over University Hall for the afternoon in a mass mill-in that made normal administrative business impossible. The students talked and argued with deans and Faculty members, and did not try to force any administrators out of the building...
...continuation of the snipings and gang shoot-outs that have claimed 29 lives since the beginning of the year. Authorities in New York fear that racial turmoil centered in the schools may spill into the community at large this summer. Pittsburgh police are alert for guerrilla warfare in integrated mill neighborhoods. Despite these threats, despite the knowledge that a single unexpected incident can turn hope to ashes-literally-the dominant mood is that this year the cities are not for burning...
...Baeza reacted a fifth of a second more slowly, the 94th Preakness field might have been sprayed all over the track. Baeza rides cleanly, says little, and seldom claims foul. With a run-of-the-mill reinsman an accident would have been a strong possibility and the foul claim inevitably sustained. Unfortunately, Baeza was victimized by his own greatness...
...fires burn so slowly that even spiders can outrun them; very little wildlife is destroyed. With permafrost so close to the surface, it often takes trees 70 years to reach a diameter of four inches. They are "useful" only for pulp, but the nearest roads for a hypothetical pulp mill are often hundreds of miles from any particular forest. The fires' contribution to air pollution is only temporary, and the grass and moss burn so in- completely that humans' fire trenches may cause as much erosion as the fires...