Word: clippings
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...moment that I saw the guy go crashing through a window. I knew it was going to be a brawl, and a classic one at that. It was just the way I had always envisioned it. In Athens last summer I had seen American sailors tear apart a clip joint in retaliation for a few hundred drachma in change that they never happened to get back from the bartender. But here, in Ithaca, New York, people were brawling just for the pure joi? de sport...
...Weathermen moved out, walking east down Randolph St. toward Lake Michigan at a rapid clip. Chants of "Power to the People" and "Off the Pig" resounded off the towering glass fronts of the Loop buildings...
...Critics of the bill made three significant attempts to cut back appropriations. There was a stab at denying the Pentagon $533 million to buy more C-5A air transports, a plane that so far has proved uneconomical. Questioning the need for 15 attack aircraft carriers, the critics tried to clip $377.1 million appropriated for construction of a second nuclear carrier. Finally, they tried to cut $80 million from funds allocated for construction of an advanced strategic aircraft. All the efforts were voted down...
...windows and incense pouring out of the door. I stopped at the grass counter and asked for some regular white Zig-Zag cigarette-rolling papers. Friends had also suggested a Rizla rolling machine if I felt too clumsy to roll my own. Another important purchase was a roach clip, used to hold the "roach" or butt of the joint after it has burned down and concentrated all those good resins...
...have the power to open people's lives, I could have stayed. But the enjoyment of the jolt itself, the aesthetic pleasure of rebellion, is a horrifying thought. For it is unanswerable; there is no return. The Faculty can rap on love and the Corporation can let the poor clip its coupons, all to no avail. Grant what concession you will, unless you turn American society upside-down and free the consciousness from the tyranny of the corporate state-and maybe even after all that-there is no answer to a man who enjoys his act of rebellion, who says...