Word: things
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...woman." Added Photographer Don Davis: "One guy laid across the back end of the car and blew the side of a guy's head off." Clair Burton, her face caked with blood, told how a woman died in her arms. Said Burton: "The first thing that happened, I saw this Klansman waving his gun. The next thing we knew, there was shooting all over the place." According to eyewitnesses, some of the demonstrators fired back at the Klansmen with handguns...
...unexpected insight into motivation: "She had often, in her quiet way, thought of what she would do if someone attacked her. She had always planned to speak gently and to ask them why they were so unhappy and had they forgotten they were children of God. But a terrible thing had happened. She had wet herself, like a child, all down her legs." Red with shame, she bashes the thief with a brass lamp. To make this moment believable requires the sort of mastery that moved one critic to say Pritchett was the Segovia of the short story. A good...
Senators Adlai Stevenson III (D-I11.) and Howard Metzenbaum (D-Ohio) are sponsoring bills that would establish some form of federal oil corporation, and California assemblyman Tom Bates is advocating an initiative to do the same thing on a state level. These campaigns face stiff opposition funded by the bloated budgets of the oil bureaucracies. They can only win success by convincing the public that the free enterprise system, our national security and the American way of life hang in the balance...
...This is not a sudden thing," McNulty said. "It's been brewing for the last couple of weeks. Reed has hardly trained much lately, and he was unhappy with his running as well as his studies...
Religious fervor within the concrete and stone walls of the grand horsesoe could be just the thing to snap Harvard out of its doleful wanderings. No more "beat' em, beat' em, buck' em. . . " We need enlightening recitals of Thomas Hooker's "A True Sight of Sin," or Jonathan Edwards' "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." We must rally around the Puritan cause and repulse the Quaker blasphemy as our ancestors once did to Anne Hutchinson...