Word: smacked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crusades. For the civil rights movement as a whole and SNCC in particular, the villains were easy to come by. There were the club-swinging sheriffs, invariably paunchy, invariably cackling, invariably so stupid that they'd sic the dogs and turn on the firehoses and order the charge smack in front to the t.v. cameras. There were the hooded Klansmen, who blew up churches. There were the signs--"Whites Only" or "No Coloreds." As other movement historians have documented, civil rights leaders were smart enough to provoke reactions, and when the cops refused to swing away on national...
...decent, modest lives. No longer violent in their opposition to "the system," they have, with few exceptions, quietly abstained from becoming a part of it. One guy spends all his time fixing cars; others are teachers, drug counselors, songwriters. One girl writes speeches for a liberal senator whose politics smack of opportunism. She worries about...
...office and living. In the East Side area between 50th and 94th streets?the heart of the matter, if the Big Apple were an artichoke?at least eight new co-ops or condominiums are currently in some stage of completion, all high-rising and luxurious, of course, and all smack in the center of things, which accounts for their appeal. At the proposed 44-story Museum Tower, for example, condominium owners will be able to descend from a $250,000 one-bedroom home to an extension of the Museum of Modern Art within the same building. In the 62-story...
...whip, Congressman Robert Michel, that the presidential nominee was about to arrive with Ford. "Where did you hear that?" Michel demanded. Someone replied that Dan Rather had reported it. Michel tried to call the Reagan suite and G.O.P. Chairman Bill Brock, but could not reach either. Then he ran smack into Rather, who immediately phoned his producers to report that Michel was trying to set up a meeting with Brock. Said Bill Kovach, Washington editor of the New York Times: "It was a hall of mirrors out there...
...certain intuitive appeal, based on the popular notion that our government controls our everyday lives. But there are no assurances he will be able to isolate the inefficiency, and to keep his pledge, he might purge valuable social programs. His stands on abortion and the equal rights amendment smack of regress--a renewal of some of the less fortuitous features of the "American compact." His palatable personality alone is not sufficient to dispel legitimate fears about his warped social priorities...