Word: rubs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York! I say to you: New York! let black blood flow into your blood That it may rub the rust from your steel joints, like an oil of life That it may give to your bridges the bend of buttocks and the suppleness of creepers. Now return the most ancient times, the unity recovered, the reconciliation of the Lion, the Bull and the Tree Thoughts linked to act, ear to heart, sign to sense. There are your rivers murmuring with scented crocodiles and mirage-eyed manatees. And no need to invent the Sirens. But it is enough to open eyes...
...Chief Justice Earl Warren and Justices Hugo Black, William Douglas, William Brennan Jr. and Arthur Goldberg) is characterized as "liberal." The four-member minority (Justices Tom Clark, John Marshall Harlan, Potter Stewart and Byron White) is called "conserva tive." But once those labels are at tached, comes the rub - and a prodigious amount of punditical energy is used in trying to describe the difference between a Supreme Court liberal and a Supreme Court conservative...
...wave of gangland killings as hoodlums sought to weed out bad risks. At week's end it happened. Two Brooklyn thugs died as bullets sprayed their cars in two separate attacks. One was a member of the Gallo gang, from which killers had been recruited for the rub-out of Albert Anastasia; the other was an ex-Gallo hoodlum who had deserted to a rival Brooklyn gang. Little wonder that many a mobster was muttering "Cosa Nostra si sta rompendo" (Our Thing is breaking...
...departing from what had been the custom, included illustrations showing Negro parents and babies. Several Southern Congressmen quickly canceled orders for the integrated edition. Explained Georgia's Representative John W. Davis: "I'm just afraid that in view of the current state of high feelings it might rub a few nerves the wrong...
...sense of tradition and loyalty that was so important in directing him toward poetry in the first place, now impelled him to put his art at the service of his country. "It was our duty to rub off these dirty marks from our banner and to restore the original meaning to our revolutionary concepts," he declares...