Word: weatherized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just had it. I'm voting against it," Steven J. Rosenbaum, a first-year law student, said yesterday, in response to today's weather forecast...
...Marx and Mao, Lenin and Trotsky, they impressed Clayton Van Lydegraf with their grasp of revolutionary ideology. Lydegraf, 62, a Communist Party member since the 1930s, had founded the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee in San Francisco. Its aim: to serve as a recruiter and support organization for the Weather Underground, the supersecret group that was formed from,the most extreme elements of the '60s antiwar movement and is bent on fomenting violent revolution in the U.S. Though the Weather Underground is estimated to have only a few dozen hard-core members, it is widely believed to have been behind...
Dick joined the radicals in 1970; three years later Ralph went underground too. Last April, Van Lydegraf asked his two faithful followers if they wanted to work with the clandestine Revolutionary Committee, a Los Angeles-based feminist faction of the Weather Underground that was looking for new members, especially people who knew about firearms. Ralph's purported experience in the military and Dick's in armed crime made them perfect candidates...
...Revolutionary Committee had a problem: the two men were the first FBI agents ever to penetrate the dark and harsh world of the Weather Underground. Ralph, actually Agent Richard J. Gianotti, and Dick, Agent William D. Reagan, lost their cover in November when federal judges needed their testimony to issue warrants for the arrest of Van Lydegraf and four Weather people, the biggest roundup of the group ever made. The Government contends that the five aimed to bomb the office of California State Senator John V. Briggs, a conservative Republican who hopes to run for Governor on a strong stand...
...moles" (spy jargon for longtime double agents) quickly learned that Josie Bissell and Esther Mullin had other prophets, among them Kate Millett and Betty Friedan. Indeed, the Revolutionary Committee had formed as a separate faction because Bissell and Mullin found too much "male supremacy" in the Weather Underground. The women refused any special treatment from the men and forbade them to use such words as bitchy, ballsy or aggressive when talking about women. They also never wore dresses or makeup, except as disguises, condemning them as symbols of male exploitation that were also out of keeping with...