Word: digs
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...part of their rock-group image, Michael Jackson and Barry Barnes wore long hair, sideburns and mustaches. Authorities at their Nashville, Tenn., high school did not dig the getup and suspended the boys. Arguing that the hair was necessary to their musical careers and in any case was protected by the First Amendment's free-speech guarantee, Jackson and Barnes went to court. But neither trial nor appeals judges were turned on by the musicians' plaint. Last week the Supreme Court also turned a deaf ear; so the school's long-hair ban stands. Four months...
...stoned that night. While House tackle football is not considered a serious activity by a large part of the Harvard community, there are many former high school football players who do not feel committed to play varsity football, but who nevertheless enjoy the sport. "A lot of us dig playing football," Mark Faller, one of the Crimson's best wrestlers, told me last night. "It is a great way to play a hard contact sport, without the worry about getting hurt...
...Today we're here in front of the OFLA war target because we dig the dynamite job done by the Proud Eagle Tribe," said one of the five Yippie women who called the Harvard press conference...
...really cuts through you. Like Janis, she makes the transition from one extreme-show blues-to the other-hard rock-with utmost agility. She is a Sex Goddess and plays the role to the hilt, managing to infuse as much nuance into every line as the audience cares to dig. When she caresses the microphone in a certain, very suggestive way, she exudes more sexuality through her fingertips than Jim Morrison has in his whole body. And her dancing ... well, James Brown might be better, perhaps ... But he might...
...Oreo"-a cookie, black on the outside, white on the inside. Another moderate, Roy Wilkins, received only 53 per cent backing. The NAACP leader, highly popular with Whitney Young among the black soldiers of 1967, is roundly criticized today for condemning the black studies movement. "I dig the militant brothers," said Jessup. "Nonviolence didn't do anything but get Martin Luther King killed." Young drew the support of 51 per cent...