Word: belonged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...perception, immigrant workers became prey for the big, bad industrialists who stilted the country's public education system and other institutions to channel a docile, well-mannered labor force toward a myriad of unskilled occupations. I.Q. testing and vocational training; the eugenics movement and the Jim Crow laws--all belong to an ideology of oppression that envisions America's oppotunity as an unfulfilled promise, a myth for the masses in despair...
...declares), we have to deal with new confidence. Grown-up Jeffreys mindlessly runs through R.O.C.K., his paean to his draft which sounded so heartfelt on last year's Escape Artist; the new version is like hearing 101 strings playing the Who's "My Generation." And "96 Tears" does not belong on another Garland Jeffreys album. He's been in the business for a decade, proclaims his allegiance to Frankie Lymon, so why doesn't he play something else to show...
...multiple rocket launcher known as a "Stalin organ" being unloaded from a Soviet ship at Luanda harbor in 1975 during the civil war in Angola. To his surprise, the Angolans did not seem alarmed by the arrival of such heavy firepower. "Organs go in churches," said one. "Churches belong to God. He will not let that organ make...
...remark "If the show plays to empty seats, the failure will not belong to the Royal Shakespeare Company or the importers but to the Broadway audience" is as ridiculous as the exorbitant $100-a-ticket price. While your article notes that Nicholas Nickleby was a smash in London, it does not mention that there theatergoers could pay a measly $14 a seat...
...ahead at the office, more than a few career-conscious men have turned to their "old boy networks" of friends and schoolmates. Working women are now discovering that they can do something similar. In Minneapolis, some 2,400 career women belong to a self-help job-counseling group that is pointedly named All the Good Old Girls. For membership dues ranging between $5 and $100 annually, Minneapolis' Good Old Girls and hundreds of similar networks throughout the U.S. provide members with contacts among other working women, as well as seminars on topics like speechwriting, managerial techniques and job stress...