Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Easy to Spot. Rather than harass the hippies, Fink opens the doors of his precinct house and invites them in to "rap" (chat, deriving from "rapport") about their complaints. He does them favors, offers them free tickets to local shows, once wrote a letter of recommendation for a scholarship-seeking hippie who wanted to return to college. Above all, he speaks their language; when rapping with a hippie, for example, Fink usually calls his own police "the fuzz...
...force of seasoned detectives to protect hippies from muggers, pushers and sex perverts who prey on them. Known as "the Hippie Squad," the plainclothesmen mingle with the hippies in their hangouts, usually grow their hair long, and have beards. Even so, they are easy to spot: they tend to have paunches and wear white socks and the black shoes that are part of the regulation police uniform. But since the Hippie Squad is part of Fink's protection program, the kids don't seem to mind having the fuzz around, except when they bust a pot or acid...
...bright spot in the loss was the defensive play by Locksley and fullback Hilary Worthen. Worthen, who prevented a goal in the first period, joined Locksley in holding back the barrage of Penn shots...
...heartened Munro on several counts. On Thursday the varsity beat a Harvard-M.I.T. grad team, 2-1, which had edged them, 3-2, the week before. In addition, passing has looked sharp among the forward line, though Munro cited mid-field coordination and defense as still a trouble spot...
...painstakingly built up by the movie company, and inevitably it begins to seep into Annabel's psyche. Her husband Frederick, an intelligent, surly man, is a much-photographed adjunct of the image, and when he sees his wife retreating into fantasy, he dramatically kills himself at the spot commemorating the martyrdom of St. Paul. Why? To shock Annabel back to herself? Or to play a hideous joke? Frederick leaves four ludicrous letters-all accusing Annabel of scandalous behavior-in a place where they will be found by his old friend Billy, who happens to be a veteran blackmailer...