Word: belongings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that "400 years ago, Africa was called a dark continent," and that it stayed that way until "the Victoria Falls were discovered by David Livingstone." The chief of his tribe, according to the history book, was discovered by some European explorer. The child is led to believe that he belongs to some group that does not belong to the normal everyday world. He belongs to something that needs to be discovered...
...trilogy, and read a passage describing how a group of Senators demanded that Lincoln reshape his Cabinet to their specifications to assure greater harmony. "Mr. Lincoln had no intention of doing this," the President drawled. "He had told a friend that all of the responsibilities of the Administration 'belong to that unhappy wretch called Abraham Lincoln,' and as he tried to meet those responsibilities, the last thing he needed or wanted was a contrived or enforced harmony...
...grab his inheritance. In 1961 the case was dismissed on grounds of insufficient evidence. Even last week Domenica preferred obscurity, not attending the exhibition's formal opening. Said she: "These paintings were made by artists whom Paul Guillaume chose because he believed in their genius. They belong first of all to those who love them...
...longs to belong to NATO, although there is no military necessity for doing so: the defense pacts it signed with the U.S. in 1953 give it the same protection that NATO nations enjoy, and the U.S. military bases on its soil make it an active partner in Western defense. Three SAC bases, near Zaragoza, Madrid and Seville, although now being phased out as missiles take over from bombers, could be used as a U.S. staging area for any trouble in the Middle East or Africa. The great naval base at Rota, on the Atlantic side of the Strait of Gibraltar...
...York transit strike has brought the New Snobbery into open view. The leader of the Transit Workers' Union, Michael J. Quill, was born and grew up in Ireland, and many other leaders and members of the TWU are of Irish descent. They do not belong to a fashionable minority group, and therefore their demands -- and their problems -- can be dismissed with scorn. I have heard many Harvard-Radcliffe students, all thoroughly sympathetic to the civil rights movement and to the plight of the Appalachians, scoff at the idea that skilled transit workers should make more than $3.13 an hour...