Word: sheeps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Implied in the Nixon Administration's desperate attempts to grab the spotlight of environmental concern is a driving hope that America's young sheep, led astray by evil anti-war radicals and black militants, might return to the fold of constructive Mickey Mouse politics...
...that they "have nothing against the black." contempt and loathing have become embedded in the language. Black Psychiatrist Alvin F. Poussaint points out: "In the legacy of our civilization, the color black has been virtually synonymous with 'sin' and 'bad'-witness such terms as black sheep, black magic, blacklist, blackguard, blackball, black lie and many others. The word is associated with all the dirty, lowly, unintellectual functions in human life. The word white is usually invested with the opposite meanings, so Americans have been conditioned to perceive black as inferior and white as superior...
...Ouyen, tin guards on the legs of hospital beds protect patients from the rodents, and wags joke that they now have the world's only 18,000-hole golf course. Some farmers, their fields chewed to stubble, have been forced to feed their sheep by hand. Set out in barnyards, baited, water-filled drums fill up with as many as 1,000 drowned mice a night. Yet so far not even Victoria's Vermin and Noxious Weeds Destruction Board has come up with a really effective solution. One woman whose supply of the Pill was eaten by mice...
...lineup in January 1971. For onetime top-ten TV headliners to gamble on a summer-replacement audition requires "tremendous guts," marvels one ABC executive. Tommy himself admits that some of his show-biz colleagues might consider the deal "demeaning," and that off-season substitute series are "generally so much sheep...
...Sitting there, listening to that lecture, you reminded me of sheep," he said. "Why did you sit here and listen to that shit?" he asked, adding that he was referring to lectures generally and not to today's Hum 8 lecture specifically. He admitted that he had not heard much of that lecture...