Word: stick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American flags, the first demonstrators headed toward a phalanx of 60 cops four blocks away. A police captain shouted through a bullhorn that they would be arrested if they did not have a parade permit. The marchers stopped. A cop smashed a Negro above the knees with his night stick. And many demonstrators obediently climbed into trucks for the trip to the hogpen prison...
...idea that community activity can mean social progress. It is this simple notion--that progress is possible but can only be achieved through cooperation--that an integrationist group must get across to combat the attitude, constantly reiterated by the local Negroes themselves, that "we people can never stick together, or get anywhere in the white man's world...
Cooper was all but born in a pilot's seat. A native of Oklahoma, his father was a lawyer, a county judge from Shawnee-and an amateur pilot. Gordo sat in his father's lap during voyages in an old Command-Aire biplane, took the stick himself by the time he was six. As a teenager, he worked odd jobs around the Shawnee airport to pay for lessons in a J-3 Piper Cub trainer. He was inspired, in part, by stories his father told about two famed acquaintances, Amelia Earhart and Wiley Post. Gordo soloed "officially...
...pushing research on new gimmicks with which to wage the old kind of warfare. It is working on a grenade-thrown dye that would mark raiding guerrillas so that they could be identified under a special light when they posed as innocent villagers. It is seeking explosives that stick to a bridge like chewing gum, and has perfected jungle bedrolls secured by adhesive rather than zippers, so that a soldier can jump out quickly under attack...
Whether Segni chooses Moro or sticks with Fanfani, the premiership will probably be no more than a caretaker's position for the next two months. For not until mid-July will Nenni's Socialists hold their annual convention and decide whether or not to stick with the Christian Democrats and keep the center-left alliance alive...