Word: watered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Augustus Owsley Stanley III, LACE "makes you want to take off your clothes, kiss people and make love." Other hippie plots included jamming gun barrels with flowers and an attempt to "kidnap L.B.J. while wrestling him to the ground and pulling his pants off. We will attack with noisemakers, water pistols, marbles, bubble-gum wrappers and bazookas. Sorcerers, swamis, priests, warlocks, rabbis, gurus, witches, alchemists, speed freaks and other holy men will join hands and everyone will scream 'Vote for me!' " Alas, L.B.J. rarely visits the Pentagon...
...hard plastic frame shaped like a squashed three-dimensional U that, standing up, serves as a chair, on its side can be used as a see-through table. "Transparency is the criterion of our age," proclaims Quasar, but like other see-through inflatables, his furniture can be filled with water colored to fit the mood. Or, on a cold night, his pillows can be easily turned into cozy hot-water cushions...
...action slackened up long enough for the demonstrators to start thinking about their stomachs instead of their heads. Hundreds of people kept a constant supply of food and water flowing to the front until everyone had eaten his fill. But even after the hunger and thirst had been satiated, the supply line continued to bring food as if life were indeed dependent upon it. The fact that an unorganized group which had somehow come together in a. common cause was able to feed itself, set up lines of communication, muster lawyers and doctors to the scene was a source...
There is no doubt that Lee has done much for Singapore. The tiny island republic has a per capita income of $500 per year, the highest in the area. From 1961 to 1965, Lee spent $315 million on economic development, focusing on power plants, water facilities, roads and other precursors of industrial growth. Singapore has negotiated trade agreements with the Soviet Union, Hungary, Bulgaria, Great Britain, the United States, and several other nations...
...became so desperate at this news," one paragraph read, "that I decided to try the hot water and turpentine method someone had told me about. We poured one-half gallon of turpentine in a pail and added scalding water over this. Priscilla sat on the paid and I wrapped a blanket around her. The fumes were supposed to make her abort. This was done three times a day for three days. The only thing that happened was that I burnt her bottom...