Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...restraining elements, like Lackey, the paranoic elements, like Clark, is far tenuous, and even Lackey is only protecting status quo. When the roar of a dozen and cycles speeding down a crowded city becomes commonplace, and the sight of a trooper gripping a billy-stick and glaring Negro becomes blurred in one's mind score of similar images, then the price of niggers is still...
...allow the newly liberated tribes to express their gratitude by voting for Tshombe. Reluctant voters will be lured to the polls with sacks of salt, but campaigning will be a dangerous business. "If you go off the main road," Munongo recently warned all candidates, "someone is liable to stick a spear...
...sand beaches on Tourane Bay are deserted; pedicabs and taxis have given way to Jeeps and deuce-and-a-half trucks. Danang's populace doesn't bother to look up at the Skyraiders and jets bellowing off the runways en route to another strike north. Military men stick to their posts. Bars and brothels go dead at night, leaving girls to play cards and dance with each other; little children with wild eyes pick one another's pockets. Even in the "Doom Club," a hangout for U.S. officers, there is no singing. The busiest spot in town...
...stranded on a Manhattan subway platform, the vulnerable humanity of Mark Gordon's expressively modulated performance makes one care about him. Gagliano has a gift for capturing the acrid flavor and jagged tempo of the city's mental and physical derangements. A blind man, his white stick rattling frenetically, goes into a convulsive attack of "the crazies" as the city's noises slash unendurably at his brain. A girl (Linda Segal) is raped by a pair of subway toughs, and the agony of it is its casual lack of horror. Despite the madness and the hurt, Playwright...
Pettigrew suggested that a new civil rights act should carry "not just a stick, but a carrot," in the form of rewards for integration. He mentioned "balanced schools" as an example. If balanced schools offered special courses that students could not take at other schools, parents would recognize the advantages of the system, and the stability of balanced schools might increase, he predicted...