Word: flak
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...OTHER soldiers remained quiet. The sergeant stood, helmeted, with a flak jacket buckled tightly, in marked contrast to the younger, more leisurely soldiers who wore only fatigues and carried no weapons...
With the conspicuous exceptions of Teamster Bosses Dave Beck and Jimmy Hoffa, no union leader in recent American labor history has drawn as much legal flak as Tony Boyle, irascible president of the United Mine Workers of America. The Labor Department recently filed suit against the 66-year-old labor chieftain charging numerous irregularities in his last election. A group from his own rank and file is suing him and other top union officials for $75 million for conspiring to misuse pension and welfare funds. And in Washington County, Pa., District Attorney Jess Costa is readying the trial...
About 1000 sheriff's deputies in flak jackets and helmets were called out to put down the looting, and to protect firemen called in to stop blazes in the area, which destroyed two buildings. The violence came in the same area where Chicano newsman Ruben Salazar was killed by police bullets last August...
Radical Chic and Mou-Mouing the Flak-Catchers, by Tom Wolfe. Two related pieces of social satire about the confrontation between Black Power and white guilt...
RADICAL CHIC AND MAU-MAUING THE FLAK CATCHERS by Torn Wolfe. 153 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux...