Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...place of mourning is the Charles Street Jail. I and 100 other citizens on Friday, May 22, sat in front of the Boston Army Base to block buses carrying inductees to a war they do not want to fight. For this I am jailed. My jail sentence is light and the fact that my security is loose is the only reason this letter can pass to the public. From thousands of draft resisters who are now held in Federal prisons where security is better we shall hear nothing. They are the Vietnam fighters I honor...
...Perhaps if every kid eligible to die in Southeast Asia put the heat on good ol' Mom and Dad, the middle-aged block of ice could be thawed a little. Even though Abraham was determined to carry out God's command and knife his own son to death, I don't think most parents would share the same degree of devotion. The concept of Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Public telling their son to go risk his life in a war situation (a situation few parents could adequately explain) because Nixon says so seems absurd...
FRANCIS M. BATOR KONRAD E. BLOCK WILLIAM M. CAPRON GERALD HOLTON GEORGE B. KISTIAKOWSKY SEYMOUR M. LIPSET ERNEST R. MAY RICHARD E. NEUSTADT EDWIN O. REISCHAUER THOMAS C. SCHELLING MICHAEL L. WALZER FRANK H. WESTHEIMER ADAM YARMOLINSKY Cambridge, Mass...
...frequently erotic root meaning ("Christian," he says, is a derivation from the Sumerian meaning "smeared with semen"). These half-forgotten roots, Allegro maintains, link the characters and stories of the Bible to the orgiastic, often outlawed mushroom cults of the Near East. For example, the Greek word for "stumbling block," which is used to describe the crucified Christ in Corinthians I, once meant "bolt," which leads Allegro to connect it with the phallus-shaped "bolt-plant" mushroom; thus he concludes that "stumbling block" is, in fact, a cryptic reference to getting high on mushrooms...
...storing it. Citizen protest in Washington and Oregon was quick and vehement: a petition to stop the shipment collected 200,000 signatures; various groups staged "die-ins" to simulate the effects of the gas. As a last-ditch effort, McCall and Governor Daniel J. Evans of Washington sued to block the shipment in U.S. district court. Late last month, President Nixon canceled the plan...