Word: slept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next morning, as Lady Bird slept in, Udall led his wife and Mrs. Robert S. McNamara, wife of the Secretary of Defense, along with reporters and photographers to the top of Sharp Top Mountain (elevation 3,875 ft.) to show off the Blue Ridge Mountains and make a pitch for conservation. With an investment of $150 in camping equipment, his department points out, a family of four can spend a weekend outdoors for only...
Marine Lewis, a Choctaw girl from Mississippi, quit school four years ago at the age of 15 and then just stayed home. "Mostly," she says, "I slept...
During World War II, the Klan slept again. But in 1954 the U.S. Supreme Court's school desegregation decision awakened it once more. As in the beginning, the Klan made the Southern Negro-and civil rights "agitators"-its target, and turned to dynamite bombings as its chief form of violence. Much of the Klan's terrorism is handled by goon squads with such picturesque names as "The Holy Terrors" and "The Secret Six." Such groups were held responsible for the mutilation and murder of three civil rights workers who were found in an earthen dam in Mississippi last...
...Pinnacle. At one point, Kennedy slipped into a deep crevasse, was rope-hauled out by Whittaker. The trio slept out at the high camp, next day completed the assault. Bobby himself took the lead for the final 50 yds., and arriving at the pinnacle placed there a copy of Jack Kennedy's inaugural address, a packet of PT-boat tie clasps, similar to the ones that the late President used to give visitors and voters. He also planted the Kennedy family flag-a shield showing three gold helmets on a black background, topped with a hand holding four gold...
...After work I often slept on a desk at the office or stayed overnight when friends invited me to dinner in their homes," he said. "This was not because of a Bohemian bent in me. Far from it. According to the law, 'native' bachelors have to live in hostels in Johannesburg, ten or more strange men to a room. I chose to be a wanderer...