Word: steams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first issue of jargon-free articles, which supplement the knowledge of professionals with the special expertise of parents and of the disabled themselves. One piece, the first of a series on recreation, explains how to improvise active wheelchair games that are not only enjoyable, but good for letting off steam. Another details a system for teaching the use of public transportation. The same article deals forthrightly with a highly sensitive and seldom-mentioned topic: the intermittent and "very human" parental wish "to get rid of or lose their disabled child...
...chief Robert Tonis approached Cox and warned him that some members of the small crowd outside had broken a firedoor and were attempting to force their way into the Theatre. Cox then asked McCarty to end the meeting. The speakers made their way out of Sanders Theatre through the steam tunnels and the Teach-in was history...
...service at their campsite on the Mall. Veterans turned in 900 DD-214 forms, which attested to their service in Viet Nam. One vet offered his glass eye as testimony, and another a used return ticket from Viet Nam. The evidence also included 200 piasters, a receipt from the Steam and Cream Massage Parlor in Bien Hoa, a membership card from Madame Binh's Hot Shop Parlor, a Chieu Hoi safe-conduct pass for Viet Cong defectors and, of all things, a membership card in the Veterans of Foreign Wars. One upset veteran pushed his way to the microphone...
...other half yearns to join Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman on a back-lot Casablanca of the '40s to whisper: "Play it, Sam. Play As Time Goes By." We seem to be not so much entering the new decade as backing away from it full steam astern...
...organization's own words, is designed "to provide a head of steam behind a proper foreign policy...