Word: pinned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slums are too large and too numerous, the plight of the Negro too desperate, for the U.S. to pin its hopes for racial calm on police action or hasty economic palliatives. What is needed in addition is proof positive to the Negro that he can find justice and hope in America, and that he can find it soon...
Thus, in a curious way, anonymity is a Washington status symbol. I know a couple of run-of-the-mill Senators who have tried for years to get reporters to pin their own ascribed views to the high-sounding "associates of the Senator," but they just can't get any takers. The last Senator who demanded and got the cloak of anonymity as a matter of course was Lyndon Johnson. The only one who gets it regularly now is Robert Kennedy. You can tell whose stock is rising...
...more than 25 undercover narcotics agents, who arrest an average of 20 hippies a week, usually for possession of marijuana. Busted hippies in turn come back under orders to inform on their suppliers, but the drug sources are so varied and elusive that the "narco" squad has yet to pin down any major outlet...
...into President Kennedy's assassination, one headline at a time. As his pile of clippings grew, so did the number of skeptics. Last week, in an hour-long program called "The J.F.K. Conspiracy," the National Broadcasting Co. joined the crowd, accusing Garrison of going to considerable lengths to pin an assassination plot on New Orleans Civic Leader Clay Shaw...
...take no chances and hit a No. 1 iron instead of a wood off the tee. The ball sliced into the rough; Nicklaus pitched out-and reached for the No. 1 again. This time he belted it a full 240 yds., onto the green, 22 ft. from the pin. Jack carefully surveyed the putt and stroked it straight into the center of the cup for $30,000 and his second U.S. Open victory-breaking Ben Hogan's 19-year-old Open record by one stroke. Bobby Jones probably put it best when he remarked after the Masters two years...