Word: sun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Robert Coles's latest book, The Old Ones, is about life in the New Mexican desert, as described by five elderly residents. Alex Harris's photographs bring us a people with faces carved by the wind, eyes burnished by the sun; a people who look directly at us, burning their way into our memory...
...stood between the donkey and the sun [Dombey and Son]...I turned in a full circle. My rich young and handsome friends had disappeared. Changed. In their places were cardboard cutouts. I picked the thick paper men up [Pickwick Papers...
...large freighter The African Sun sat in its berth in East Boston's Pier No. 1. The sun was barely above the row of three-storied houses on the horizon, and the chants of over 100 picketers at the gate leading to the pier created clouds of misty breath. Longshoremen arriving at this early hour to unload the ship's cargo slowed down in their cars as they saw the demonstrators and sleepily took the leaflets handed them...
...Importing Rhodesian Products supports a Racist Government," the leaflet pronounced in large letters. "Refuse to Unload Rhodesian Goods!" According to the American Friends Service Committee, the African Liberation Support Group, and the other organizations which had set up the demonstration, the Sun carried goods exported from Rhodesia. The picketers had come out so early this bright morning to urge the dockworkers to refuse to unload the ship and to support an international boycott against goods from Rhodesia...
...Congress relented to the pressure. Under the Byrd Amendment to the 1972 Procurement Authorization Act, the U.S. can import Rhodesian goods designated as "strategic" in importance. The amendment originally allowed for importing chrome alone, but the strategic definition has since expanded to include beryllium, nickel, and asbestos. The African Sun allegedly carried Rhodesian asbestos, and the protestors asked the longshoremen to force the shipment back to Africa. Yet the workers drove through the gates to the loading platforn. Another day of work began...