Word: actually
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...power blackout, for example. Good liberals justified the looting by pointing out that these people were 'hungry,' and were expressing 'racial rage.' Except for the fact that the looters took televisions, stereos and couches, not food, and the fact that T.V. news cameras clearly showed not rage but actual gaiety on the faces of the looters, this theory holds up. Of course, right knees jerked as rapidly as the left ones, as some observers claimed that the looters stole because they were human jackals, amoral animals, the scum of the earth. Newsweek quoted one woman as saying the looters were...
...called black English. Her pupils, many of whom do not know the alphabet when they arrive, take standardized tests at the beginning and end of each year to measure their ability. Their progress has been phenomenal. Many jump from well below to well above their actual grade level. One, Ericka McCoy, 8, was assigned to a class for the mentally retarded before enrolling at Westside last year. Today she is reading at the tenth-grade level...
...feel the fullness of life only on the hairpin curve of total danger? One is bound to feel that Tally wants us to see the hero as a visionary. The reason his men follow him is that his leadership is a magnetic pole, more real to them than the actual pole...
...student members must be able to guarantee some measure of employment security to PIRG professional staff. Furthermore, Mass PIRG tackles problems that require ample time and resources for solution. A fairly automatic fund-generating system is needed to sustain such efforts. In addition, PIRG wants to involve students in actual research and lobbying rather than draining their energies into fund raising year after year. A majority-supported negative check-off funding mechanism enables such a PIRG to exist; a positive check-off system does...
...most states, judges can sentence a convicted robber, say, to between one and 20 years; the actual time the felon serves would depend on prison and parole authorities' judgment of his progress toward rehabilitation. That, says Illinois Criminologist Hans Mattick, "made drama schools out of prisons and actors out of prisoners." Under the Illinois plan, the judge will assign a specifically legislated term-two, three or four years for a robbery felony, depending on circumstances. The convict's sentence can be reduced only by accumulation of "good time"-a day off for each day of trouble-free prison...