Word: beare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enemy just can't be left to hold even a rapier-sized sword near the city." In the North, another U.S. commander declared that the concentration of some 70,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong has given the U.S. "silver-platter" opportunities to bring its firepower to bear in conventional battles...
...solution, in fact, seems to be little more than an emergency patch of blue, though it is at least that. Last week he gave out the figures for February, and they seem to bear out the point. The number of robberies had bobbed back up from 163 to 207. But the rate did not go up in the crackdown areas; all the increase was in previously low-crime areas. Headley thinks that means that the crackdown has driven some criminals into new territory. The obvious conclusion: intensified police work can make a dent in crime but it is no substitute...
White liberals must understand this. They will have to swallow a good deal of their self-righteous indignation--and genuine hurt. But they can never again wash their hands and complacently bear witness to the continued crucification of the black man in America. They must help black power along...
...huge bear of a man (6 ft. 4 in., 220 lbs.), France has made his share of enemies. He antagonized General Motors in 1957 by banning the fuel-injection system used in racing models of the Corvette, drove Chrysler temporarily out of racing in 1965 by banning its "hemi-head" engine; neither, he decreed, qualified as "stock" because ordinary street drivers could not buy them. "France made stock-car racing," a Chrysler official groused. "Now he'll kill...
...speaker is a muscular Detroit Negro ("I was one of those zoot-suit boys") whose scarred forearms bear witness to a misspent life of violence. In all his 44 years, he has worked a total of eleven months, spent 26 years in prison for armed robbery. Yet last week he was performing proudly at a full-time $134.80-a-week job: tightening bolts on the front suspension of Chevrolet trucks for General Motors, the world's largest manufacturer...