Word: almost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eventually I did get stoned. Your feet and arms may seem a little cold, and you begin to feel and see things very intensely. Suddenly you wish that everyone would cluster in a small corner of the room because you almost feel that everyone near you is in some magic bubble, whereas the people over in the other part of the room seem very far away. Time slows down in the most felicitous way: an hour can seem like three, but yet I have suddenly seen the sun coming up when I thought it was only one in the morning...
...with a straight face that wearing a scarf that was the wrong color one day "cost me the part that made Rita Hayworth." It is theoretically possible that a shoddier and more tiresome series than Bracken will emerge in the second week of premières, but it is almost inconceivable...
...cases to concentrate on. The staff has been reacting to whatever complaints happen to come in the mail, mostly from businessmen against competitors, rather than doing legwork. The FTC has an Office of Program Review that is supposed to set priorities but, the A.B.A. report notes, its director "died almost a year ago and has not been replaced...
...between those two viewpoints kindled tensions again last week in Pittsburgh, where 3,000 demonstrators paraded through downtown streets to demand more construction jobs for Negroes. "Freedom! Freedom!" chanted the marchers, as they raised clenched fists, waved black flags and circled building projects manned by unions whose memberships are almost exclusively white. More than 1,000 white demonstrators-clergymen, suburban housewives, students and even a few businessmen-marched along with ghetto militants...
...glaziers. Industrial unions sometimes have separate lines of promotion and seniority based on race. Nepotism, though on the wane today, has long been the principal way to gain admission to scores of union locals. Notably in craft unions, organized labor does not discriminate just against Negroes; it discriminates against almost everybody by trying to keep the labor pool lower than the number of available jobs...