Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...night fell Saturday, the Pentagon looked like a citadel under siege. A yellow fog of smoke and tear gas hung stagnant over the grounds. Soldiers marching in front of the main entrance threw huge, ugly shadows on the thick concrete walls. Across the parking lot reserved for top military brass, down the steps, and sloping out over the rolling wall, demonstrators spilled. Some of them were warming themselves in front of bonfires made with ripped-up placards and sticks. A long line of buses with their headlamps glowing strung-out along the access roads. The air was chilly but still...
Andy Tobias '68, President of HSA, handily disposed of the council's questions on the service until Richard Berner '68, spokesman for the HUC Sheet committee, admitted, "We see that your back is against the wall and you are driven to zero profit...
...school I see pictures on the wall. I see pictures of Spain and a pictures of Portofino and a pictures of Chicago. I see arithmetic paper a spellings paper. I see a star chart. I see the flag of our America. The classroom is dirty... The auditorium is dirty the seats are dusty. The light the auditorium is brok. The curtains in the auditorium are ragged they took the curtains down because they was so ragged. The bathroom is dirty ... The cellar is dirty the hold school is dirty sometime ... The flowers are dry every thing in my school...
Last week, with a lift from Wall Street, Intra Bank prepared to rise again. Under a deal worked out by the Manhattan investment-banking house of Kidder, Peabody & Co. and approved by the Lebanese government, the bank that was once the country's largest will be transformed into an international investment company. It will take over Intra's extensive business holdings-including thriving Middle East Airlines, Beirut's port and the Phoenicia Hotel, cement plants, warehouses, casinos, a French shipyard and valuable real estate on Paris' Champs Elysees-and try to recoup the bank...
...than 400 theaters in the U.S. Dallas has five such houses, Boston four, Detroit eleven, Los Angeles twelve and Manhattan 16. The growth of the nudie drive-ins has created a new menace on the highways: near Dallas, one drive-in owner was ordered to build a view-obstructing wall after three passing motorists careened off the road while gawking at the girlies. Estimates of the yearly haul from these ventures in the skin trade run as high as $60 million. One classic nudie, The Immoral Mr. Teas, which cost a mere $24,000 to make, earned over...