Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...buttocks to define the target zone; then the two floggers, alternating strokes, began to whack his rump. After each blow, the whipper would dance back a few steps; turning with acrobatic grace, he would twirl his cane like a drum major's baton and rush forward to strike the next blow. The victim's body writhed in agony with each fall of the cane. He cried out: "Allah Akbar!" (God is great). After four strokes, the young convict screamed out for the doctor. After six, he was given a few sips of water. After twelve, he made...
Activist in some areas untouched by the Warren Court, like sex discrimination, it has continued to press for school desegregation, tried to strike a balance on reverse discrimination and retrenched slightly on criminal rights. It clearly does not have the moral vision of the Warren Court, particularly in its attitude toward the havenots, but it certainly is not the conservative bastion that Nixon hoped to create. A decade after Burger became Chief Justice, the Supreme Court is the Burger Court in name only. In part, that is a reflection on Warren Burger and the way he has performed his role...
...This is outrageous. It's like trying to kill a flea with a machine gun," Dibner said yesterday. He said that one day during the clerical workers' strike he held classes off-campus at the regular time...
...University of Utah, says no one was "exceptionally passionate." Back then the Faculty had more passion-inducing issues than the fund drive and the Core Curriculum to consider. When former Radcliffe President Mary I. Bunting formally opened the Faculty talks on the merger in April 1969, the student strike erupted two days later. In the following months, as the faculty cowered in Sanders Theater and Merle Fainsod, Pforzheimer University Professor, guarded the portals of Widener Library, the merger was far from anyone's mind...
...well-dressed crowd was on its feet when Martin staggered on stage, drink in hand and smoking a cigarette, to strike up an off-beat, "Everybody Loves Somebody...