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...Those cats are outright, stump-down, two-bit fascists," Seale said of Nixon's administration...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: Bobby Seale Blasts President, Says Revolution's Being Built | 5/3/1974 | See Source »

...vote. Should the U.M.W. be defeated, 40 strikers could lose not only their jobs but their homes; their right to keep living in company-owned housing would be questionable. By Harlan County standards, last week's activity on Wall Street was gentlemanly, but tempers are growing short -and Stump's Gun Shop in Harlan is doing a brisk business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Miners on Wall Street | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

...this: The kids had thick glasses, and the smallest girl had light blue pixie glasses with sparkles in them. Behind the glasses her tremendous eyes seemed miles away.--Beside them in the duplex lived a lone man who watched television and gestured angrily at the government with the stump...

Author: By Phil Patton, | Title: Some Houses Down There | 2/27/1974 | See Source »

Golenpaul helped sift the questions from listeners who for more than a decade tried to stump such quick wits as Critic Clifton Fadiman, Pianist Oscar Levant and Sportswriter John Kieran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 25, 1974 | 2/25/1974 | See Source »

...response to the stinging vote of no confidence, Faulkner walked out of the Unionist Party. He vowed to remain at the helm of the coalition between Protestants and Catholics and to stump the province on behalf of the Council of Ireland agreement. "If I am the only person left on the floor of the Assembly arguing for our present policies, I will continue to do so," he said. "I've been through more politics in the last few days than ever before in my life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN IRELAND: Faulkner Splits | 1/21/1974 | See Source »

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