Word: rose
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Robert Pierson, an undercover man from the Cook County State's Attorney's Office, produced the juiciest testimony. Disguised in goggles and blue jeans and astride a rented motorcycle, Pierson had infiltrated a yippie group known as the Headhunters, and soon rose to the dizzying position of personal bodyguard to the yippie leader, Jerry Rubin. Pierson told how he had attended a yippie party in suburban Chicago where there was plenty of dope and girls, and informed the shocked committeemen, "They drank, took pills and engaged in sex." As for Rubin Pierson testified, "he said we were...
...Everybody who loves America raise his hands," the aide asked, and the mass of serious listeners filling the outer ring showed their palms and their cheers rose over the peace chants...
Sensing that the interrogation was going nowhere, the Silver Mooners tried more direct action. One of them grabbed the offending camera and threw it onto the ground. A black leather boot rose and rammed itself down into the camera. A chorus of guttural laughs went...
Wall Street reacted happily. Encouraged by the prospect that falling interest rates could lead to a new burst of corporate expansion, investors bid stock prices up to a new high for the year. The Dow-Jones industrial average rose 7.83 points in a day to reach 938.28. At that level, it had climbed 68.63 points from its Aug. 9 summer low; it stood only a shade below its 1967 peak of 943.08. Standard & Poor's 500-stock index inched up 0.35 points to its own 1968 high...
...story of Fanny Brice is the fairytale dream of an unprepossessing kid who rose from the ghetto to the Follies on a powerful amalgam of brass and tal ent. Barbra's marked resemblance to Fanny is more than nasal. She is the flip side of Cinderella-the homely gir who made it. Conceivably, it could happen to every unendowed citizen in America. For her fans, that is enough...