Word: backed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pressures on us still continued, the right put out their tongues and said "I told you so." It was all in vain. So as I said it can slow up the process and coercion becomes counter-productive. A white right backlash can be very strong and put things back considerably...
...afraid to think how much stuff disappears every single day," John Turattini, the owner of Schoenhof's Foreign Books, explained, adding, "now there is more shoplifting than ever, with the crowds of students back. It's when the students are here that we get more losses," he said...
...August Co. has installed a $4000 system with a television screen and camera that monitors the back aisles. "I would-be ecstatic if I only had $4000 losses in a year." The store catches one shoplifter per week, he added...
...hulking righthander then settled back down to retire the side. Bibby gave manager Chuck Tanner one more strong inning before Manny Sanguillen was called on to pinchhit for him in the top of the fifth...
...twenty individuals in the film--everyone from the chief of police at the University of Wisconsin to an aged but valiant Senator Ernest Gruening. A housewife tells of her early, intangible doubts concerning the war. Balding, thirty year old ex-campus radicals relive their moment in the sun, looking back with a curious mixture of embarassed nostalgia and pride at having been a part of the movement which fundamentally changed American foreign policy and values...