Word: tree
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...near a children's play area. An 80-year-old man was wounded twice in the back; nannies shielded children with their bodies. About 100 police swarmed around the toilets and exchanged gunfire with Angelof for an hour. Two cops were wounded superficially before a patrolman climbed a tree behind Angelof and brought him down with two shots from his service revolver. Two other officers leaped onto the roof and poured ten more rounds into...
...Focus of the college experience," come now. Beginning to sound like another Dunlop Report. Big words are cheap this year. Where's the nitty-gritty beneath all the verbiage? Underneath the asparagus tree written in the tea leaves I see the words: JESUS SAVES. So, appropriately, I pray to be saved, to be delivered from the tedium of the lecture halls, to be thrown out into the real world where real things happen to fleshandblood people. But soft, a voice harkens unto me: SON, FORGET IT. "It ain't so great to be on the outside," the logic flows, "stay...
Aretha grew up on the fringe of Detroit's Negro East Side in the same neighborhood with several singers-to-be ?Diana Ross, Smokey Robinson and all of the Four Tops. The Franklin house was a big tree-shaded one with a tidy lawn, even though it did have cockroaches in the kitchen and rats in the basement. Yet the gamy life of the ghetto was only half a block away. Recalls Aretha's brother Cecil, 28: "The people that you saw who had any measure of success were the pimp and the hustler, the numbers...
...heavily ideological," says Lerner, U.S. politics has been pragmatic and personal. "That is now changing. There are passionate isms sweeping the ghettos and the university campuses. Unfortunately, the three traumatic killings of the last five years, which should have taught us how bitter is the fruit of the poisoned tree of ideological passions, do not seem to have carried their lesson home...
Auchincloss is Real, and so is his cousin Hugh D. Auchincloss, Jackie Kennedy's stepfather. Birmingham pronounces the Auchinclosses "the definitive family of American Society." Although he is not abnormally giddy, as society writers go, he says prettily that "the lacy branches of the Auchincloss family tree spread across Society's entire landscape...