Word: 1950s
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That change is particularly striking given the relative newness of the gay movement: it is hard to trace significant activity back much further than the 1950s, whereas the civil rights movements for blacks and women took shape in the 19th century and needed far longer to attain their basic goals. The rapid pace of change for gays owes much to the trails blazed by blacks and women, and the success of those groups gives gays hope that in a generation or so they will have attained full acceptance as just another piece fitting into the mosaic of national life...
...Quang was uninhabited until Vietnamese began to move in during the 1950s. This may explain why ancient species still survive. But now hunters' snares indiscriminately kill anything they trap, including endangered animals such as the tiger and sun bear. Human pressures have reduced the elephant population to as few as five animals, and the same fate could befall the species just uncovered. MacKinnon, disturbed by the connotations of the name slow-running deer, is worried that this animal may become extinct even before it is scientifically described...
...being increases, particularly when technological advance or government largesse give them the idea that the old limits no longer apply. So argues Vanderbilt University anthropologist Virginia Abernethy and a growing cohort of critics. In Kenya, for instance, total fertility rose from 7.5 live births per woman in the mid-1950s to 8.12 in the 1960s and '70s even as infant mortality declined and incomes rose...
Despite the string of congressional scandals, longtime observers of the Legislative Branch insist it is far cleaner now than in the 1950s and '60s, when special interests fished for congressional votes with envelopes of cash. "It was a common practice in those days for a lobbyist to come to a member of Congress and hand him an envelope and say, 'Here, this is for your campaign,' says former Representative Rod Chandler, a Washington Republican. "It was a nod-and-a-wink thing. 'If you use it on your campaign, fine. If not, that's up to you.' Nothing even approaching...
...sabotage. At the least, they expect angry street protests charging that Japan is once again oppressing Koreans -- an accusation that stings because many of the 1.5 million Koreans in Japan at the end of World War II were conscripted laborers, and those who stayed still suffer discrimination. In the 1950s and '60s, many believed that Kim Il Sung's North Korea, which was faring better than the chaotic South, was the best bet for Korea's future. About 40% of the 600,000 Koreans who stayed in Japan swore allegiance to Chongryun -- and Kim -- as the defenders of Korean interests...