Word: taking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Faculty members expressed concern for the "repression and intimidation against black people which permeates our society." "It is time for faculty members to take an explicit stand against racism," the letter said...
Unfortunately, the Quincy contest was not sanctioned by the American Pancake Eaters Association (A.P.E.A.), so its rules and violations committee cannot take charge and disqualify Tarnas while declaring the rightful winner. The A.P.E.A. has had to protect itself against such addicts. and Rule XII, section 2a of the Association's bylaws reads: "No contestant shall be admitted if under the influence of marijuana." Barton, Sir Flap-Jack, and I knew this rule as card-carrying members of the A.P.E.A. and did not resort to such stunts no matter how badly we wanted to win, and let me make this perfectly...
...position on this controversial issue ought not to be misconstrued as sour grapes. Even if DiCara agrees to take the title from Tarnas and give it to Barton, I would still be only third. Of course. I was under duress after the harassment I had suffered in the days leading up to the contest. The night before sitting down to the table, Barton and his nefarious trainer, Mcltzoff, had snatched me from my very bed at 2 a.m. and raped me. It is my understanding that even Dean May doesn't have to put up with such tactics...
...wear it less frequently. Panther funds come mainly from the 25? newspaper, which sells as many as 100,000 copies a week, and from speaking fees for Panther leaders-although law-enforcement officials contend that the Panthers occasionally participate in robberies and get a one-third split of the take...
...policeman facing someone who has said, even boasted, that he is prepared to shoot it out." That, added to the perennial edginess of a white policeman in the ghetto and the longstanding and usually merited hostility of blacks to the police, makes cops confronting Panthers very jumpy men who take no chances...