Word: mucks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...firm had sold 11,247 copies and netted only $3,315.20. Appearing for the prosecution, Dr. Ernest Caxton, an authority on homosexuality, called the book an "extremely dangerous" guide to homosexual experimentation. Book Publisher (Pergamon Press) Robert Maxwell, a Labor M.P., blasted it as "sociological material with filth and muck just added for profit...
...Here," of course, was an important qualification. Massachusetts politics are still at a stage that would have alarmed turn-of-the-century muck-rakers. Any politician worth his shirt in this state gets into either house of Congress as fast as he can and leaves local business to a poor set of political hacks. And unenlightened government breeds as well as preys on an unenlightened electorate...
...beating." The announced targets were "the rightists and revisionists" within the party, but in fact the Red Guards seemed to have declared war on the party in general. There were more reports of indiscriminate beatings of local party officials, and in one town the party leader was smeared with muck and dragged through the streets. Despite Chou's explicit warning, Red Guards also ransacked the Shanghai home of Madam Sun Yatsen, the widow of the man who founded the Chinese Republic in 1911. The Guards denounced her for living in luxury unbecoming to a citizen...
...Stunned by a crash landing that sheared the wings and tail from his Skyraider, Dengler stepped bleary-eyed into a world of muck, vines and violence that stood in odd contrast to his tidy, air-conditioned stateroom on the carrier Ranger. Abandoning his radio, .38-cal. pistol and dehydrated rations, Dengler ducked into the bush-but was jumped by Communist Pathet Lao guerrillas...
...band. They seemed to be under the command of Mao's longtime ghostwriter, Chen Pota, 62, now a leader of the Cultural Revolution. Chen's order: "You must temper yourselves by going among the masses and getting yourselves covered over and over again with muck...