Word: wicker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...INFLUENCE OF PERSONALITY UPON POLITICS by Tom Wicker. 297 pages. Morrow...
...time went by, but I wasn't impatient. Quietly excited, though. Resting in the wicker basket the assistant had given me were my two oranges, clean handkerchief, and six flowers--all necessary for the ceremony. I began to fear that my flowers might wilt, but then the joyous assistant came softly to me, and whispered that I should follow...
MARGARET H. WICKER East Norwich...
LONG ago there were dreams of a summer in Chicago and all over. Tom Wicker was saying that hundreds of thousands would resist. General Hershey would not be able to get enough men, and maybe the war would end in that kind of glory. All of those thousands of college seniors and graduate students would build a strong movement for social change in this country...
...neighborhood meat market on Chicago's North Side, the Bavarian Mayer brothers-Oscar, Gottfried and Max-worked hard stuffing sausages. Oscar's wife Louise helped, and their son Oscar G. stood on a butter tub behind the counter to take orders. Weisswurst, Bockwurst, Leberwurst were packed into wicker baskets and piled on horse-drawn wagons to make the rounds. They sold well-enough to send Oscar G. to Harvard, which he left with a Phi Beta Kappa key and ambitions to expand the family business...