Word: waller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cleared the streets. "We moved as soon as we could," insisted Police Chief William Swing in response to mounting criticism. "Until we saw weapons, no laws had been violated." All of the dead were anti-Klan demonstrators: Sandra Smith of Piedmont, S.C., and Caesar Cauce, William Samson and Jim Waller, residents of Greensboro. Wounded were two Klansmen and eight demonstrators, including Bermanzohn. Police arrested 14 people, including two marchers and twelve Klansmen. The Klan members were charged with murder. One demonstrator was charged with inciting to riot, the other with interfering with an officer...
...changed Louis Armstrong from jazz's first great improviser to a grinning but unartistic national hero, then muses briefly on the corrupting influence that so often accompanies success in the arts. And Wilson has produced, in only nine pages, the gem of the collection: a bittersweet portrait of Fats Waller, an obliging soul who sacrificed his love and talent for serious (jazz and classical) music to appease the pop taste for stylized treatments of trite show tunes...
...engined tractors and thrashers did just that. Gilroy, Calif., which claims the title of the Garlic Capital of the World, held its First Annual Garlic Festival last week, and Lloyd Harris explained: "There's something about garlic that creates excitement. People can get real loose around garlic." Bobby Waller liked it hot at the Hamilton County Fair, amid the frog-jumping, tobacco-spitting and Dolly Parton look-alike contests. At 16, he's billed as the world's youngest fire-eater...
...orbiting the earth once every 88 minutes and its apogee is 119 miles," Waller added...
...information from the North American Air Defense, which tracks orbital elements. We stuff that info into our computer programs," Waller said. "Then we make passage predictions, and NASA predicts when it will crash...