Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...walked through the gate. The crowd mobbed her when she announced in a syrupy Southern drawl that her name was Nannie Leah Washburn, and that she had traveled all the way from Atlanta to lie down in front of cars in a traffic circle. "I was born a rebel and I'll always be a rebel," she croaked, and the crowd cheered with gusto. When she told them it was her 71st birthday, she was rewarded with a thundering chorus of Happy Birthday...
DAVID SHAPIRO, 24, is an intellectual onetime Columbia rebel who achieved notoriety of sorts in a famous 1968 photograph. It showed him occupying President Grayson Kirk's office chair while puffing one of Kirk's "liberated" cigars. Shapiro, who had already published a book of poetry at the time, now calls that episode "mock theater" and gives it only one big plus: he met his future wife during the activity. A Ph.D. candidate in English literature at Columbia, he plans a career of teaching and writing, has collaborated with Poet Kenneth Koch in encouraging ghetto kids to write poetry (TIME...
...Natural Rebel. Says Nader: "Well, everything begins with the parents. It has to be because of them that I have never felt pressured by the existing status symbols. Actually I had a casual upbringing. What my parents taught, they taught inductively. They knew it was natural for children to rebel. So they didn't talk at us or particularly to us. Just around us, and we listened. They came here [from Lebanon] to be in a land of justice, and they saw justice declining." The concept of beleaguered justice has remained with Nader ever since. At age four...
...Dacca, East Pakistan, up to 6000 people have been killed in the West Pakistani drive to crush rebel forces, observers reported. At least 24 city blocks have been destroyed since March 26, the Associated Press said...
...Navy bomber on escort duty in the Laotian panhandle fired at a rebel surface-to-air missile site 30 miles northwest of the demilitarized zone and about a mile inside North Vietnam...