Word: snakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contingent was trained in Lincoln Park to control crowds, administer first aid and break through police lines. Using a technique perfected by Japanese students, they locked arms and snake-danced around baseball dia monds, chanting ''Wash-air (a Japanese expression urging enthusiasm). They also practiced karate. "To remain passive in the face of escalating police brutality is foolish and degrading," said David Baker, a Committee leader from Detroit, who was leading the practice. "The advice used to be that you should give police a flower and say 'Hello, brother.' But it didn't stop...
...scales shows a baby's face. He answers legal documents with pastel scrawls on colored construction paper. Recently, and with a little embarrassment, his lawyer turned the town's official notices over to the courts complete with an emblazoned DON'T TREAD ON ME and coiled snake -Pleuthner's art work and heartfelt response. Cocking his head, he says: "The people in Scarsdale may be wealthy, but esthetically, they're paupers...
...throw the dice and seven is showing, what is facing down? a) "Seven," b) "Snake eyes," c) "Box-cars," d) "Little Joes," e) "Eleven...
...year-old Senak, nicknamed "Snake," had been working on the vice squad for two months in July, 1967. He was devoted to police work, but the nature of his job had had an affect...
...Snake in Eden. Like a film running in reverse, Lynd's version of American history reels backward from the New Left to the Declaration of Independence -"the single most concentrated expression of the revolutionary intellectual tradition." Yet even in the beginning, Lynd observes critically, there was a snake in Eden. "Property, property! That is the difficulty!" cried John Adams upon rereading Rousseau's The Social Contract in the White House. "It was indeed," Lynd echoes. Even the radicals of 1776, he laments, believed that the best way to support individual freedom was by guaranteeing the rights of "property...