Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Indeed, Carter's whole energy plan is designed as a way of reaching that future age of new energy sources without setting, nation against nation?and regions within the U.S. against each other. Whatever the uncertainties along the path Carter is blazing, not to set out at all would be the least rational of all alternatives...
...During Britain's General Strike of 1926, chaos beckoned; instead the populace cooperated, and the nation was actually strengthened by the imminence of peacetime catastrophe. In the '30s Depression, the moral equivalent of war was articulated and taken literally by the Roosevelt Administration. Men of military age marched with shovels instead of rifles in the Civilian Conservation Corps...
...Jorge Guerrero, 24, is an Ecuadorian who jumped ship in San Francisco at the age of 16. Three years later he was caught and deported. He returned by paying a smuggler $200 and enrolled in a federal job-training program in Massachusetts, hoping to become an engineer. Discovered once again, he is now in jail on a charge of illegal entry. Will he try to come back to the U.S. still another time? "Why not?" he shrugs. "I've nothing to lose...
...case involved the 1970 punishment of a Bade County, Florida junior high school student named James Ingraham, then age 14. His offense: lingering too long in the auditorium after a school assembly. As the boy told it, two school officials held him down while Principal Willie J. Wright whacked him more than 20 times with a 2-ft.-long wooden paddle. The resulting blood clots on his buttocks kept him in bed for a week. The boy's mother filed suit against the principal and other school officials. The plaintiffs charged that many students had been paddled-for offenses...
...sons -are neither witty nor especially bright. Ostensibly the book shows what happens to these three between the years 1940 and 1947, during the ravages of World War II and the uncertainties of its aftermath. In building her story, though, Morante also constructs a profound portrait of this lethal age and of the uneven struggle between the machinery of annihilation and the simple will to live...