Word: robed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only a head, only those blue gems of eyes. But he will stand every 15 minutes or so, walk about behind the desk, take a drink of water, gulping it down very quickly, sucking it in his mouth powerfully, with his free hand on his hip, holding his robe open...
...galleries. The year has seen esthetic wonders running from algae to soft obelisks, and constructions incorporating words, photographs, chicken wire, sulphur and thin air. In September Manhattan was treated to the spectacle of James Lee Byars, 36, parading more than 300 votaries along East 66th Street in a communal robe. There were the "earthworks" artists at the Dwan Gallery, who had assembled works replete with peat and petroleum jelly. Meanwhile, their leader, Walter de Maria, 33, was filling three rooms of a Munich gallery with eight tons of "pure dirt, pure earth, pure land...
...With the increasing intensity of the War in Vietnam," the Times reported in 1967, "Fortas is consulted more and more on foreign policy. As one of Johnson's closest friends, Fortas's instinct for making the wheels turn did not vanish when he donned the robe...
...braid and accompanied by his official sword-bearer and macebearer, he was honored by Governor Jack Williams at a dinner for 400, including that noted Tory Barry Go Id water. Next day Jesus Esquerra, an Indian chief whose Chemehuevi tribe once owned the land, presented Sir Gilbert with a robe and headdress and rechristened him "Ha-utu-nu-wu-mu-hwint," meaning "Leader of a Noble People...
...battle and just as calmly informed cops that he would have knocked off more of them if his gun had not jammed. Police found the weapon, a .30-cal. carbine, in a bush where Evans said he had dropped it. Evans, who affects the loose African dashike robe, received a $7,350 grant this summer from "Cleveland: Now!", Stokes' action group for civic betterment. He seems to have used the funds to better the community by buying weapons to disrupt...