Word: almost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tears and Threats. Ghetto language -alien to the genteel mores of the white middle-class teachers-filled the air. Provocative statements worked out in advance were brutally introduced by group leaders in discussion sessions to bring out basic attitudes. One example: "Almost without exception, black teachers are inferior to white teachers." The 70 leaders cajoled and insulted the participants in an effort to push them into understanding, or at least into receptivity. One woman burst into tears under the pressure. Another at first wilted under an explosive attack and then threatened to resign from her teaching job. A few older...
...Francisco's two newspapers felt differently, putting up a strenuous defense of Alioto. The Chronicle rejected "this unfortunate piece of journalism as an imputation of guilt by association." The Examiner reprinted almost all of the mayor's lengthy denial and bannered an eight-column headline about an event of more than 50 years ago: ALIOTO'S UNCLE DEFIED MAFIA WAS SLAIN...
...abortion-and she did. In the other 136 cases, no abortion was recommended, and all the babies born were normal. This procedure, Nadler emphasized, neither encourages abortions nor increases their incidence. What it does is enable couples capable of transmitting genetic defects who desperately want normal children to have almost the same chance of having them as couples with no such problems...
...particular respected church" (the Roman Catholic Church, which fought against liberalization of abortion laws) had no right to impose its religious views on the state. Another amicus brief was signed by 178 deans and other professors of medical schools across the U.S.* Their brief spoke of a "hard-almost brutal-reality." The statute that was "designed in 1850 to protect women from serious risks to life and health," they declared, "has in modern times become a scourge...
Master of Sign Language. The most renowned play associated with this theater company is Chushingura, an 18th century saga of honor and bloody revenge that is almost Sicilian in tone. In its entirety, the play runs to eleven acts and two days, but only the first four acts are being performed by the Grand Kabuki during its current U.S. tour. The story is transparently simple. Moronao, the governor of Kamakura, lusts after Lady Kaoyo, the wife of Hangan, one of Moronao's deputies. She rebuffs him. Moronao is furious and showers abuse on the unsuspecting and inoffensive Hangan. Pushed...