Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ojukwu was betting that the centrifugal forces of tribal, religious and economic rivalry would tear Nigeria apart in time to save Biafra. But his men ran out of food before that debatable historical process could run its course. Thousands of them faded into the bush, shed their uniforms and, clad only in shorts, melted into streams of refugees. The Nigerians overran Owerri, the last remaining city of any size (250,-000) in Biafra. Then they pressed on toward Uli with their 122-mm. Soviet cannon, shelling the strip from a range of 13 miles...
...sexual. I don't want to confuse the idea of freedom with sexual nakedness. Openness and honesty call for no covering of any kind." For Thomas Broom, 30, Rudi's male model, the prospect of all-over alopecia held no horror: "I've wanted to shed my hair for a long time. I have this theory that when I do, I will shed other things too-maybe my inhibitions." But Renee Holt, 22, approached her barber's appointment with anxiety. Fondly caressing her long golden tresses, she said bravely: "In a way, long hair...
...flighting a revolution here, and we must shed the economic blood of Harvard," said Lafayette Keaton '73, member of OBU. He called for a united campaign of blacks and whites. "Black people will not be totally liberated until white people are liberated too," he said...