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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...until four days after their arrest, that authorities purposely shifted the trial from London to the more conservative town of Winchester. Their supporters have also charged that prison officials brutalized the sisters by force-feeding them during their long hunger strike. Force-feeding -in which a person's mouth is clamped open while a greased tube is inserted through his nose and a "complan" solution of iron, orange and milk-soaked glucose is poured directly into the stomach-usually causes acute vomiting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Ulster's Price Sisters: Breaking the Long Fast | 6/17/1974 | See Source »

...fleeting glimpse, but one that was an important part of my overall vision of Harvard for many years. The stadium always made my mouth hang open a little. It seemed so invincible, like no structure I'd ever seen before. Sure D.C. Stadium in Washington was bigger and grander, but it did not have the same look of eternity and defiance of the ages that Harvard's ivy-covered coliseum always...

Author: By Hugh J. Leonard, | Title: Hugh's Who | 6/12/1974 | See Source »

...wash out his mouth with soap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 10, 1974 | 6/10/1974 | See Source »

...list of about seven candidates for the new positions, circulated in house letters and by word of mouth, has been narrowed to three likely choices...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: Radcliffe Houses Will Hire Separate Athletic Secretaries | 5/31/1974 | See Source »

...startling revelation. Vending machines, while making a profit for their owners, stock inferior candy--and even what they do have is stale. Candy bars cost a fortune. No longer can one be a gourmand on a nickel delight. Even the 15 cent and 20 cent bars have shrunk. My mouth isn't that much bigger, but the bars are consumable in one bite...

Author: By Lou ANN Walker, | Title: The Rise of the One-Bite Bar | 5/31/1974 | See Source »

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