Word: pots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bull" Connor is a big voice in Birmingham, where a smelter economy, stamped onto Alabama's rural culture, makes a melting pot of raw men as well as raw metals. Birmingham, settled six years after the Civil War, is no repository of genteel Southern tradition and or moderation, has been keyed to violence, whether labor troubles in the 1930s or desegregation in the 1950s. And Birmingham's white country people, teeming in from piney woods to steel mills, view desegregation less as an abstract threat to be fended off by lawyers than as a specific, bread-and-butter...
...blown many joints of pot. We were going to fall up to Marco's room, the young man in the sports shirt burbled assiduously. We went downstairs and out, out into the fantastic American night. The city was a crazy mesh of iron rectangle buildings and neon gargoyles zipping orange in the black air. The four of us flew on the two big Harleys through the wild night streets up to Marco's pad, all under the unimaginable American...
...head whose work in Ireland had netted him the title of "Rectifier of Liquors." He ran a chain of pubs in Cork and Queenstown, and "rectified" scotch and Irish whiskey to its correct proof after it was collected--much like milk from the farms--from the county's pot stills...
...sociologist observed that, at 40, many women college graduates lack a sense of purpose in life, "unless they have been doing something to keep the pot boiling," preparing them for their return to a job. "After their families have grown up," he said, "women should be able to go back to full careers, and by that I don't just mean running teashops...
Benevolently exiled, because, with the exception of dormitory living, AMP's are supported "in the style to which they are accustomed" during their stay at Harvard. Lobster, steaks and liquor flow in the upper regions of Kresge Hall, far from the pot roast and New England boiled dinners of the first floor serving line. "Of course, we wouldn't make our lowest salesman stay in accomodations the size of these dormitory rooms," a Texas vice-president declared, "But it's clean...