Word: baddings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recalls that when his own daughter was in first grade and the teacher asked what her father did, she replied, "My daddy swipes kids." Separating child from family is always a horrifying and legally difficult matter. "It's like being a member of the Gestapo," says Belisle. "As bad as you know the parents are, there they stand, in the doorway, screaming 'I love my child.' The neighbors gather, whispering and pointing. The mother starts calling you four-letter words. You may be helping the kid in the long run, but it's a nightmare...
...with American people about the true costs of the Viet Nam War and refused to recommend an income tax increase. So the nation plunged deeply into deficit, and inflation roared from little more than 1% in the mid-'60s to 4.2% in 1968. Richard Nixon grossly worsened a bad situation by also using deficit spending and then clamping on controls; prices soared after they were lifted rising 6.2% in 1973 and 11% in 1974. Gerald Ford, inheriting an economic mess as well as a moral mess, pursued stringent fiscal policies that brought inflation down...
...tenuous levers of self-government that Israel offers. Says Hatim Abu-Ghazaleh, 42, a Gaza physician: "Our basic national duty is to engage the Israelis in a political dialogue." Adds Abdel Attrif, 61, former mayor of the West Bank village of Ein Yabrud: "Camp David was not that bad. It means an opening for peace, and that is what we on the West Bank really want...
...tombstone disposition and a graveyard mind"), who would turn white values on their head by being the "baddest nigger." In the 1960s black militants used such folk heroes as role models; Black Panther Bobby Seale named his son after a famous badman of 19th century ballads named Stagolee, "a bad nigger off the block...
...second thoughts. Comes a Time contains deft insights ("I can't believe how love lasts a while/ And looks like forever in the first place") and the occasional turns of phrase ("In the field of opportunity/ It's plowing time again") that grate and shudder like bad brakes on a heavy...