Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rebel Image. A paternity suit here, a fine for urinating on a building there, and pretty soon the London papers were asking: "Would you want your daughter to marry a Rolling Stone?" With each blast of adverse publicity, their recordings edged higher on the pop charts, until the boys suddenly found themselves the champions of the teeny-bopper revolt against adult authority...
...boost the morale of the militarist government in Saigon. Rather, America's planners, frustrated by the understandable reluctance of Hanoi to negotiate, have decided to force the North Vietnamese to the conference table under the threat of bombing them, in Curtis LeMay's curious words, "back into the Stone...
...tornadoes inflicted heavy fatalities in Oak Lawn, a southwestern suburb and in Belvidere, 65 miles northwest of Chicago. One person was killed in Chicago and another in suburban Stone Park...
Heroes, however, are not always easy to pick. One of Stone's early miscalculations was Jackie Robinson dolls-which were unaccountably outsold by Rival Joe DiMaggio dolls in Harlem stores. Now, with camp idol Batman beginning to fade, Licensing is going back to the locker room for more durable names. Not long ago, the company got French Diver Jacques Cousteau to give his name to a line of underwater gear. As for tennis and the USLTA, says Stone, they "will outlive...
...break loose, like the Chinook salmon jumping and falling backnosing up to the impossible stone and bone-rushing waterfall--raw-jawed, weak-fleshed there stopped...