Word: torch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Accounts differed as to how the fight started. Claimed Clark: "I don't know what happened. I didn't even see her when she hit me in the eye. She knocked hell out of me." Mrs. Cooper, 54-year-old night manager of Selma's Torch Motel, was born in Selma, spent most of her life in Ohio and Pennsylvania, where, she says, she had voted since she was 21. Three years ago, she returned to Selma to care for her mother, now 98 years old, and has twice tried unsuccessfully to register. She contends that...
...black-bearded, Oriental-eyed effigy ablaze before the U.S. embassy in Manila looked more like Charlie Chan than Uncle Sam. But no one could mistake the mood of the 5,000 torch-bearing students, trade unionists and agitators swarming before the embassy gates. Their placards read "Stop fooling us, Yankee dogs!" and "Go home, white monkeys!" The mob shouted not only for immediate removal of all U.S. military bases but also for things clearly beyond U.S. control, including an increase in the minimum wage (currently $1 a day for industrial workers). Then a soft rain began to fall...
...Ripon Society, itself composed of young people, directed the closing remarks of the report to the youth of the nation: "...today no man and no Party carries the torch of our generation. This is the great tragedy of American polities ...And it is the great opportunity of a new Republican Party...
Helena loves Demetrius who loves Hermia who loves Lysander. Bottom is a timid bachelor who despairs of finding an old-fashioned girl and carries a torch for his long-lost mother ("Oh, Oedipus Rex, you're so right! right! right!"). When romantic moondust falls on all the wrong parties, the enchanted wood near Athens fills up with entangling misalliances...
From that November afternoon when he made it clear that the torch of continuity was safe in his hands to that November night nearly a year later when he won the biggest election triumph in history, it was his year-his to act in, his to mold, his to dominate...