Word: wouldn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Taking someone behind a door and beating hell out of him? Our officers wouldn't dare," says Reddin. "They know that if they did, they'd be prosecuted, and might just wind up in the joint." Undoubtedly, there are more subtle forms of physical abuse?an elbow in the back or a punch in the kidney. But the new worry, as Reddin readily admits, is psychological brutality?the condescending look, or the tone of voice that indicates to a man that he is a suspect merely because of his color, clothes or accent...
...racking up victory after victory this year with the most preposterous high-jumping technique ever devised. Approaching the bar, he plants his right foot, spins a full 180°, and launches himself backwards into the air. Experts are at a loss to explain why the "Fosbury Flop" works. "I wouldn't advise anybody else to try it," says Oregon State Coach Berny Wagner. But it sure does the trick for Dick. Last month Fosbury cleared 7 ft. 2 1/4 in. to win the N.C.A.A. championship, and last week he soared 7 ft. 1 in. to take first place...
Natkin: They wouldn't let us say it. We are going to compromise. It was going to be "Draw a flower around your genitals with a Paper Mate Flair." Then they'd say "knee" and we'd say "navel," and we'd meet in the middle...
Westbrook: Phony fur pens! Wouldn't you love a fur pen? A mink pen? How about a tiger pen? Or a leopard pen? Would you believe an alligator...
...concluding session, Father Gavin divided them into small groups, confined them to a room for tension-producing "sensitivity training" in which the only conversation permitted was the emotional reaction to their experiences. Mrs. Robert McCarty, wife of a Phoenix thrift-store-chain manager, said that she had thought she "wouldn't want to sit and eat with unshaven, dirty people." But in doing so at a mission for derelicts, she had discovered that "they're not really so different-just worse off." Otis Garnand, an auto-parts dealer, was moved by his night among the vagrants. "I thought...