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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...countryside," Pattakos says. "The air in the cities is never as fresh as that in the country." Nor perhaps is the love of freedom so violent. Last week in the central-Greece village of Megalo Kalivia, 40 peasants were hurt and two score more arrested in a pitchfork battle with police. The battle flared over a strip of ground that the peasants have always used for sheep grazing. Those new eaters in Athens want to erect a meat-packing plant there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: WHY GREECE'S COLONELS ARE THAT WAY | 4/18/1969 | See Source »

...Maybe I've got no pitchfork...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Son of Rock 'n' Roll Quiz | 1/29/1968 | See Source »

...introduce myself. I'm Orville Freeman, the man on the end of the pitchfork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Agriculture: On the Prongs | 7/14/1967 | See Source »

...John McLaurin and Benjamin ("Pitchfork Ben") Tillman, both South Carolina Democrats, who exchanged insults-then blows-on the Senate floor in 1902, giving rise to Senate Rule XIX, which bars senatorial character assassination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: PREDECESSORS IN DISGRACE | 6/30/1967 | See Source »

First they assassinated the Renault, brutally sacrificing it with ax and pitchfork. Then a girl in a white brassiere and red bikini climbed onto the car's crushed roof, where a scrawny youth massaged her with wads of spaghetti. The girl plucked pasta from her shining body and flipped it at the audience; the audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: The Happening | 6/4/1965 | See Source »

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