Word: worsted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then came the worst plague-a drenching thunderstorm and an on-and-off drizzle climaxed by a 17-hour deluge. Before it ended, the greensward had been churned into six inches of gumbo as thick as Delta farm land, and clouds of mosquitoes dive-bombed the dwellers. To avert dysentery and flu epidemics, the leaders evacuated 100 of the 2,400 residents, mostly toddlers, until the campsite could dry out. Still, the campaign's leaders professed themselves undiscouraged. "I was talking to the Lord," Bevel reported, "and he said he was going to let a little mud in here...
Since the assassination riots, according to the city's public safety director, Patrick Murphy, crime is up 15%. In the worst slums, cowed businessmen reported a rash of burglaries, fires and extortionist threats. Four shopkeepers were murdered in three weeks. Most serious of all was the situation on the city's buses. Two weeks ago, Bus Driver John Talley was shot and killed by a band of Negro youths, climaxing a wave of nearly 250 holdups so far this year...
...First Death. "We don't give a damn about the general," chanted some 10,000 students as they marched through Paris toward the waiting cordons of helmeted riot police. The ensuing fighting was the worst by far in the three weeks of violence. Some students, singling out the Paris stock market as a symbol of capitalism, broke into the Bourse, ripped down quotation boards and built a fire inside the building. Others built barricades at the Place de la Bastille, a symbol dear to every revolutionary's heart. Getting tough, police fired tear gas, concussion grenades, slashed any head within...
...Pentagon, which the Yearbook felt--no doubt correctly--had a profound effect on a lot of people around here. Remember the anger and frustration, the hippies stuffing flowers down the gun barrels that were pointed at them? The Yearbook brings it all back with some of the worst photos I have seen of the march. The only one that reveals some vague perception of the mood is an action shot that is unintelligibly blurred...
...being in a genuine emphatic and responsive relationship to the proletariat -- if there is such a thing as the proletariat as they think of it. I have to quality here, too, because one of the most frustrating and significant things in American life is that even in the worst parts of this country, there is just enough to prevent starvaiton, just enough to provide for malnutrition rather than starvation...