Word: account
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Instruction Superintendent Max Rafferty, want to redraw the state's education guidelines so that evolution is not the only theory of man's origins included in California textbooks. Rafferty and his fellow fundamentalists want equal time for the Garden of Eden and the rest of the biblical account of creation so that the children can decide for themselves between the Book of Genesis and Darwin's Revised Standard Version of creation...
Continuing her account: "At about 5 o'clock in the morning, blood started to flow. I never saw it because there was no light, but I felt it all over my feet. So I start to scream, 'I lost my baby, I lost my baby!' Then the guard comes and says, 'What is the matter with you?' Then I show people, and they let me out of the cell." After an hour's wait, Mrs. Tsirka, who is now in exile, was driven in an ambulance to a hospital, where she was given medical...
Real and Horrifying. What they got instead was a realistic and sometimes horrifying account of J.T., a Negro boy played by Kevin Hooks, son of N.Y.P.D.'s Robert Hooks. J.T. is trying desperately to grow up in Harlem amidst peeling paint, dank buildings, rubbish-filled lots and a way of life that is guaranteed to turn any American Dream into a nightmare. He steals a transistor radio, then befriends a decrepit street cat. He is set upon by two older boys determined to steal the radio from...
...simply supplement. Some retailers who mail out unsolicited credit cards try passing on the high costs of collection and theft loss to their customers. Until protests from three states prompted revisions in the plan, Montgomery Ward billed charge-account customers for credit life insurance on themselves to avoid the expense of settling with the estates of deceased buyers. Unless customers specifically requested not to be enrolled in the plan, they were billed 100 a month on each $100 owed. Although the charge amounted to pocket change for most persons, it was designed to pass on a major expense of Montgomery...
...should we continue to provide services to hippie patients? This is what I call a deadbeat account," Danehy said. For some 20 minutes, he grilled Dr. James Hartgering, the City's Commissioner of Health, Hospitals, and Welfare, about the unpaid bills and the operation of the free clinic...