Word: starting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...peaceful march ends Saturday's action, and an inconclusive meeting ends Saturday night. After five hours, you decide to meet at nine the next morning and start from scratch. The basic split is emerging here. Some people want to keep attacking, keep cutting fences. Others don't like Mace, don't like wearing gas masks, fear that real violence may break out. "What did you come here for--to occupy or not?" one man shouts, and people around the circle really wonder...
...head off into the marsh towards the fence. About 20 policemen with Mace and clubs gravitate toward the protesters who are knee-deep in water and muck. They stop about 20 yards from the police, link arms, then they turn around, face their comrades on the railroad tracks, and start dancing a Rockettes kick-step. Much cheering. Ever mindful of the press, a protester shouts, "Media! Media! Photo opportunity!" The demonstrators also make sure the photographers are ready when, a few minutes later, the police grab the demonstrators, rip off their face-masks, and mace a few for effect...
Freezing prices would only create shortages for everyone, because demand for the fuel would once again surge and the Government would wind up having to allocate supplies, just as with gasoline last summer. Washington would be wiser to quit looking for scapegoats and start enacting production-boosting programs that will bring more fuel of all sorts-solar, hydroelectric, synthetic and nuclear-to market, and at an affordable cost...
...take him in a minute and under some pretty tough conditions. I say to Miller and group: "Hey, don't get mad at me, I'm new here too." They reply: "Geez, we wish you'd go away. You picked a lousy time to start going bankrupt-just before the New Hampshire primary...
McKay himself is a rich Bostonian of refined sensibility, great kindness and few brains. Because bees tend to start new swarms if the old queen is removed, and can do so up to four times a season, McKay figures he can parlay the ten hives he is taking to Kansas into 10,240 hives in five years. Each hive can "cheerfully" produce 80 to 100 lbs. of honey a year. This he will ship east in summer for sale. The music boxes will take up the trading slack in winter...