Word: rebelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the results were in at his election-night headquarters, Wallace was his cocky old self as raucous rebel yells greeted his joyful summation: "Alabama still keeps her place in the sun, and Alabama will continue to be heard from." Translated, he meant that George Corley Wallace still enjoys political fair weather and expects to be anew the irrepressible voice of Alabama...
...most vivid passages of Maass's book, the railroad workers finally rebel. In September 1944, the nation's trains simply grind to a halt. But the gesture is both too late and too early. An airborne invasion is stopped at Arnhem, and Allied forces drive past The Netherlands into Germany. Crippled by their lack of transportation, the Dutch freeze and starve. In January 1945, the food ration is down to 500 calories a day; families eat tulip bulbs and "roof rabbit" -cats and dogs. Bread on the black market is $27 a loaf. Abandoned houses are torn...
Faced with a brutal truth, the mind can rebel and seek escape in fantasy. As Senator Edward Kennedy explained at the January inquest into the death of Mary Jo Kopechne, his mind did just that on the morning following the tragedy at Chappaquiddick last July. It tried to believe that somehow Mary Jo had survived the plunge into Poucha Pond. Said Kennedy: "I willed that she remained alive...
...pretentious, and probably doesn't even own ??? leather jacket. He is not looking for kicks ??? the fury of a Hell's Angel. He has worke??? photo-engraver, edited a magazine with ??? Brautigan (lifetime: one issue), studie???, been a teaching fellow at Harvard. His has ??? been the life of a rebel without a cause...
...went so far as to talk to Bailey-that he is a lot sicker than the men he defended for staying home. In a dossier compiled for the FAA, Government psychiatrists labeled the famous criminal lawyer "dangerous" and "irresponsible." "He collects heads," said one. "He's a young rebel, a David. His role in life is to slay Goliaths." Bailey sprang to the counter-analysis. "General paranoia," he concluded. "If they said I was dangerous and irresponsible, they better prepare to defend...