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...quality medical aid for almost everything but major surgery, legal defense funds for free legal assistance and bail money in political cases. Radicals for the most part have no insurance and no credit payments. Furniture is inherited from friends, books borrowed from the library, transportation by bicycle or by thumb. "This country is so affluent," admits a Berkeley radical, "that we can live off its leavings...
...reception room of Dean Glimp's office, ??? girl stood with blood trickling down from a cu??? in the center of her forehead. A state trooper ??? stepped up, and like an artist evaluating a profile, ??? placed his left hand on her shoulder and steadied ??? her chin with ?s thumb. The tenderness of his ??? grasp was deceiving. With his free hand, he raised ??? his long club over his head, and with a deliberateness which belied the force of his blow, brought ??? the club crashing down on the girl's head. The ??? force of the swing nearly lifted the trooper from ?? the floor...
...thumbs through so many pages, seeing so many black faces and so few white ones, it might dawn on one that for decades blacks have had to thumb through magazine after magazine, seeing mostly whites and few, if any, blacks...
...turn out just over $1,000,000 worth of jewelry, electroplated metals, and baroque Hofmuster silver each year. Strohbach could have gone with a giant state firm, which would have guaranteed him the security that he insists is "very important." But he remained semiprivate because, he says, rubbing his thumb and first two fingers together: "I can make so much more...
...that's not my name," Sam said. Wisdom's sad tolerance for silliness. Big frightened little one so in need, sucking on a big bruised thumb...