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...These people are always completely ready to defend themselves. The man with a family keeps thinkin that somebody is gonna come up to 'im with a tommy gun and they're ready...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: CANNABIS ROAD: The Freakoid Cracker | 2/1/1974 | See Source »

...always just happens to be in the neighborhood, hounding his prey relentlessly, unnerving them, distracting them. Then he walks away. But wait. He turns and takes a few steps back into the room. Here it comes. The zinger. "Oh, excuse me, sir, but just one more question. I been thinkin', and you know it strikes me kinda funny that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Cop (And A Raincoat) For All Seasons | 11/26/1973 | See Source »

...crash training program: "Up at five, to bed by ten at night. No lunch, no breakfast, my stomach burnin' with hunger, fightin' temptation, women of all races callin' me on the phone, and the only thing keepin' me from goin' out the window is thinkin' of that short walk to the ring, and all those faces there, lookin' at me and sayin': 'Why it's a miracle! He looks sooo beautiful.' " He did, weighing in last week at a rock-hard 213½ Ibs. His measurements in fact differed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Return of the Ringmaster | 11/9/1970 | See Source »

Frazier agreed: "All I know is, he's a person and I treat 'em all the same way." That is, with the same brutal indifference that he once applied to sides of beef in a Philadelphia slaughterhouse. "When I was training, I got to thinkin' way back to the farm in Beaufort, S.C.," recalled Frazier, one of 14 children. "I thought about the days I ate raw turnip butts and radishes with dirt on 'em. Then I thought about how I will retire undefeated with a million dollars and go into business as a singer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boxing: Winner, and Still (Partial) Champ | 7/4/1969 | See Source »

...rock 'n' roll on the radio can't help hearing about hearing that hush-"the sounds of lovers in love." The sunny troubadors are Herman's Hermits who also sing such post-nursery rhymes as Little Miss Sorrow, Child of Tomorrow, If You're Thinkin' What I'm Thinkin' and No Milk Today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Apr. 14, 1967 | 4/14/1967 | See Source »

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