Word: skeletons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spock. Aroused by acrimony and acid-rock, the crowd moved exuberantly out across the Arlington Memorial Bridge toward the Pentagon. Inside the Pentagon, a siege mood prevailed. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara had entered his third-floor office at 8:15 a.m. and immersed himself in his customary workload. The skeleton staff of 3,000 that usually mans the Pentagon on Saturdays had been sharply pared by orders to all personnel to stay home unless their presence was absolutely necessary. In the four underground tunnels that normally service buses and taxis, vehicles of the First Army were parked bumper to bumper...
...hippies, comparing them to the Greek Cynics whom she described as sort of grubby in appearance and gross in manner, seekers of the simple "natural" life. She prodded them for trying to reject the past. "One can no more reject the past than reject one's own skeleton...
...such total upheaval, we refused to study television as a medium, and had no understanding of its effects. McLuhan's latest book, The Medium is the Massage, is an attempt to boil down his theory (which has already been boiled far too often) and to provide the definitive skeleton key to media study...
Lear's Fool. No one follows this pie-eyed piper, and he follows no one; his most faithful companion is the skeleton of a woman, the least troublesome kind of female from his point of view. In every town he knows the jails, the madhouses, the cantinas and the churches. He wears rags sewn with tiny bells, each of which tinkles a note that in his mind symbolizes the special vice of each place he has visited. He is a spiv, and his roguish capacity for survival unites him with Ulysses, Tom Jones and Huckleberry Finn. Yet Pito remains...
...allowed to put off service until after graduation. Some 3.2 million men would find themselves classed 1-A if this system were adopted today, which is about twice the number needed to fill the military's needs. A lottery could be used to choose men from the pool. A skeleton Selective Service, based in Washington, could keep track of draft-age men in case they were needed for a general mobilization...