Word: approach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...believes that even the watered-down bill would create an atmosphere unfavorable to discrimination. More important, the law would be a symbol of progress to ghetto Negroes. Already, warned Roy Wilkins, executive director of the N.A.A.C.P., "a large segment of Negro and white Americans is jeering at the legislative approach to civil rights. A failure by the House to take effective action for fair housing will increase skepticism among more sober citizens as well...
...bravely that her own and Pat's ages average out to 21. On this score her mother, who was 21 and a college graduate before she married, says reassuringly: "I think a year of planning it and a year of being sure about it is a very reasonable approach. Luci is a very feminine, domestic sort of girl for whom this will be right...
Among the stately carriers and dashing destroyers of the U.S. Seventh Fleet, there exists an ugly, unlikely division of four ships that is known as "McCoy's Navy." Its officers and men are recognizable from afar by their luxuriant beards and deep suntans, and the approach of their elderly craft can be detected by the clatter of chipping hammers pecking away at rusty decks. The ships themselves have high, unsheered bows and an ungainly 12-knot waddle, while the most advanced piece of electronic gear aboard any of them is a popcorn machine. Yet Inshore Fire Support Division...
...guerrilla leader became his country's most decorated World War II hero, intends to make it smaller yet. He has seeded the troubled area with loyal officials who fought with him against the Japanese, and has devised his own pacification program, a mailed-fist and velvet-glove approach...
Under the Business School's approach, the police chiefs will examine actual case studies. Thomas J. O. Raymond, the program's Faculty director, said yesterday that most of the cases are from industry, but that "we hope there is some transferability to police problems...