Word: yip
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...about job hunting as a kid in his home town of Dixon, Ill., telling an American success story he has told a hundred times before. He seemed genuinely happy to hear it again. No noise made its way up to the house on Pacific Palisades, except for the occasional yip of a dog, and, of course, the eternal sound of California?the whir of a well-tuned car. Outside, the Secret Service patrolled the bougainvillea on streets with liquid, Spanish names. Reagan's face was ruddy, in bloom, growing younger by the second...
...press conference is conducted from two sofas and a couple of chairs in the middle of the bookstore. A press conference without press, save one Harvard Crimson reporter, and he looks bored. To interest him, a local party publicist reads some statements of support for the featured attraction, Stephen Yip, U.N. One of the U.N. Two, about to be sentenced for throwing red paint on the U.S. and Soviet ambassadors to the United Nations...
...from a socialist doctor in Boston," the leader announces, and the physician stands up to deliver a short, snappy round of revolution-talk. Other supporters include "2 Lawyers and 2 Employees from an attorney's office in Heidelberg, West Germany," and "30 inmates at the Cincinnati Workhouse." Well supported, Yip answers a few questions, explaining that his was an attempt to "expose imperialist war preparations." The paint, he adds, was waterbased...
...have to wonder if they'll come riding in on steers, twirling their lassoes, yip-yip-yipping away and dribbling behind their backs while wrestling a helpless 250-lb. calf to the ground--all in the tip-off circle...
...cross state lines to disrupt the 1968 Democratic Convention. They stirred up demonstrators and helped lead street protests against the Chicago police that often turned violent. One of their leaders was Jerry Rubin, field marshal of the yippies. Remember the yippies? Well, they were the Youth International Party (YIP...