Word: sows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...medieval days any dog, hog, horse, donkey, mouse, rat, beetle or swarm of flies charged with a crime could get a fair trial-complete with sharp-tongued defense attorney and a day before the bench. When a sow was hanged for devouring its young, a dog executed for biting children, or a rat pack or fly swarm ordered exterminated, there was no question about it: the whole legal system of the 15th century was in there pitching...
...chiefly because he felt that it was unwise of the liberals to give up a weapon that could save the day for them sometime. "To those of you who wish to alter radically the balance of power between a majority in the Senate and a minority, I say, You Sow tre Wind, for minorities change and the time will surely come when you will feel the hot breath of a righteous majority at the back of you own neck." To many liberals, this is all very irrelevant to the business of obtaining full civil rights now. But to Ennuy?...
...inspiration to teach in a school that meets each child's needs without frustrating him." The few complaints are mostly from parents whose kids seem to be moving slowly. "The plan makes a wonderful scapegoat if the school can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear," says Principal Miriam Burton...
...Lisa (Janet Margolin) is a 15-year-old girl with soft brown eyes and schizophrenia. She is split into two well-defined personalities. As Lisa she is a silly four-year-old who talks all the time but only in a "word salad" seasoned with rhyme ("A big fat sow-and how and how"); as Muriel she is a demure adolescent who communicates in writing because she can't talk...
...record companies were getting a rude surprise. Through bunk and ballyhoo, they had for decades been turning sows' ears into silk purses. Now they had found a silk purse that had no desire to become a sow's ear. The girl did not want to be exploited, squeezed, and stuffed with cash. Joan eventually signed with a little outfit called Vanguard, which is now a considerably bigger outfit called Vanguard...