Word: snaking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their parents, their fury at the police and the courts, tempered by the knowledge that they could not do much about it. Above all, one could scarcely find, in journalism or in fiction, a more revealing portrait of a certain type of policeman. David Senak, 24, known as "Snake," served for a year and a half on the vice squad, and he apparently enjoyed his work. It seemed as if his career had consisted of one case after another in which a man or woman had confronted him with some obscene gesture or lascivious remark. Senak admitted to Hersey that...
...resulting floods. Roads and bridges crumbled, and vehicles were trapped in a deepening ooze. But through most of the downpour, some 1,200 African tribesmen and Italian workers doggedly continued to lay down six miles of pipeline a day. If they manage to stick to their schedule, "the Great Snake," as the natives call the $45 million project, will be completed in June. Stretching 1,058 miles across mountains and marshes, through thick jungle and dusty scrubland, the line will carry gasoline, kerosene and diesel oil from the port of Dar es Salaam on the Indian Ocean to the copper...
...more evidence about Marmes man and how he lived, the W.S.U. scientists are digging farther into the site. But time is running out. In December, a new dam across the nearby Snake River will begin creating an artificial lake that will eventually flood the site. Although digging for Marmes man has already cost more than $100,000 in grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Park Service, the scientists have asked for another $70,000 to continue their digging until the waters rise...
...about had enough. He said that he would not run for President again and he said that he would try to make peace in Vietnam. Whatever pushed him to that decision--the Vietcong or the anti-war people or a bad heart--it was over. And in Cambridge they snake-danced in the streets...
Nevertheless, some of the behavior is characteristically new: flaring Music-ins on Cambridge Commons every Sunday, snake-dancing in the streets on LBJ night. It all means simply that Spring is leaking into existence and Harvard Square is proving as embarrassingly voluptuous as ever about a welcome...