Word: picking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Duncan criticized the cynicism of the Special Forces toward the "Vietnamese army, the Vietnamese government -- the Vietnamese everything." "During a march we'd begin picking up Communist suspects. The longer the march got, and the heavier our loads became, the more suspects we'd pick up. We'd put the loads on their backs and march them one and a half days from home, reach our destination -- and then the suspects would be exonerated...
Gershwin! Dig all the rock 'n' roll beat groups! Pick up on all the bestselling novels! Because I am one of them millions of "can-not-be/shall-not-be/integrated or (Uncle Ralph Bunche) assimilated," I figure it's best to talk, walk, sing and swing like a true nigger! It is like my music, jazz. It's personal, and the sounds often change from nigger to Negro and from colored to Afro. That's our sound. It's our contribution to the world, it's pure Afro-American. It's beautiful. 'Taint...
Rage in Yellow Shirts. Even at that, Sukarno's balance is precarious. Last week mobs of angry anti-Red students stormed through Djakarta, blocking entrances to Merdeka Palace with stolen trucks and forcing Sukarno to send helicopters to pick up his Cabinet ministers for the swearing-in ceremony. Nervous guards fired into one group, killing three students. That brought on a second mob scene, with 100,000 students-led by yellow-shirted members of the Indonesian Student Action Command (KAMI)-lining the five-mile funeral route. Sukarno retaliated by outlawing KAMI, declaring a curfew, and forbidding groups of five...
Earlier, one worker told an SDS member, "Get out of here or I'll punch you in the mouth. Anyone who's afraid to fight doesn't belong in Ameria." The student answered that he was not afraid to fight, but only wanted to pick the right thing for. Three minutes later the student and the still-unconvinced worker were talking quietly...
...suits from Caraceni in Rome, his hats from Gélot of Paris, his eau de cologne from Penhaligon of London. He eats well at Drouant's in Paris, Taverna Flavia in Rome, La Cote Basque in Manhattan and Scott's in London (the coffee shop in Chicago's Pick-Congress Hotel, he says dreamily, makes the best waffles...