Word: striped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fortnight ago, in Cochabamba, Bolivia's second biggest city, either police or pro-Paz campesinos fired into a mob of rioting students, killing one of the youths. That was all it took to trigger an open revolt by students, miners and agitators of every stripe. In mining centers, union radios crackled with calls for "popular rebellion" against "the bloody tyrant and assassin Paz Estenssoro." Lechin's well-armed miners fought pitched battles with government troops, and the first casualty reports told of some 50 dead...
Spirited. Salinger also hits hard at Murphy's links to Goldwater. He accuses Murphy of having supported Dr. Fred Schwarz's ultra-right Christian Anti-Communism Crusade, charges that Murphy is an "archconservative of the same stripe as Senator Goldwater, but hasn't the courage to express his honest convictions...
Michael's defense, conducted by natty Lawyer Arthur ("Dart") O'Keefe Jr., who drives a Rolls-Royce and affects bowler hats and pin-stripe suits, is that he was just too drunk to have been driving Mrs. Hitchings' 1964 Ford station wagon at the time of the accident, and that Nancy herself must have been in the driver's seat. He claims to remember nothing of what happened that night...
...campus slacks by picturing them worn by a tiger, and another manufacturer of slacks, Thomson Co. of New York, shows a tiger skin with a girl's head. Fabergé has added a "Tigress" nail polish and lipstick to its "Tigress" perfume, which is advertised with a tiger-stripe background...
...also right. The private does like to kill, and every time he kills he likes it more. He likes it as much as the sergeant does, and he hates the sergeant because the sergeant won't let him forget that they are tigers of the same stripe, who go mad when they smell blood. When there is blood to smell, the tigers infest the screen with danger and excitement. When there isn't, and in every third or fourth scene there isn't, they suffer an embarrassing transformation. They begin to purr like patriotic pussycats, and their...