Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...State. For the past two weeks, the delegates have been seeking a solution that would satisfy both Gowon and the regions. Plans to split the country into as many as a dozen regions were being aired. "One man, one state," gloomed a conference member. "That seems to be our motto." It did indeed: Northern delegates, some of whom had to be restrained from dashing home during the rioting, were dead set against the notion of splitting the North into several separate regions; Easterners were threatening to secede from the nation, and arguing among themselves over internal secession from the region...
...more mixed up the better seems to be the motto in art these days. Sculptors are adding paint to metals and incorporating everything from old divans to truncated taxis as props for their pop works; painters are bulging their canvases out into space to challenge the sculptors. Now the mixed-media trend seems to have struck the world of prints. Scorned are such traditional tools as the lithographer's stone and crayon, the engraver's burin, the woodcutter's gouge; in are Plexiglas and acetate, molded plastic and all kinds of electric lighting...
...birth control clinics of France and Scotland, she listened, watched, learned, then returned to publish, write and edit a magazine called Woman Rebel. Its motto: "No Gods, No Masters." Her first editorial promised subsequent stories on birth control; postal inspectors grabbed up copies, and she was indicted on nine counts of sending birth control information through the mails. Deciding she needed time to prepare her defense, she left her three children with a nurse. Without court permission, without a passport, and under the alias "Bertha Watson," she left on a midnight train for Montreal and thence to Europe...
...family that plays together stays together. At least that's the motto of the Richeys of San Angelo, Texas...
Anderson and his Albatross are part of the 650 men and 45 planes and helicopters of the Third Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Group. Their primary mission: retrieving U.S. airmen shot down over the North. Their motto...