Word: summer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kipp said if he approves the recommendation, work will begin this summer at an estimated cost of $50,000, depending on the amount of floor space to be carpeted...
...When I wasn't hitting the ball last summer, nobody wanted to ask me nothing. They just said, 'The Boomer's dead,' and so on. Now I'm talking, and they're listening...
That's the George Scott who suffered through strings of strikeouts last summer, who listened to mob howls of "Boooooomer" fade to flat, drunken curses: "Fat nigger." And it's the Boomer who didn't want to talk about racism...
Credit Lucky Scott, and credit her husband who loves the game so much that he still dared to sit naked in the clubhouse after going 0-for-41 at the plate last summer. Now he still sits naked and--less several rolls of fat--he sits more comfortably...
...turning point came in the summer of 1969 in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, when 400 gays flooded the streets for several nights to protest police raids on the Stonewall Inn, a homosexual bar on Christopher Street. The anti-Viet Nam, civil rights and women's rights movements all helped galvanize gays into thinking that they, too, could make a claim on society for recognition of their basic rights and point of view. Since then, the gay rights movement has impressed the nation's consciousness strongly enough to gain an ironic tribute: the rise of an alarmed, organized and vehement opposition...