Word: belt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prodded by the gains of the Mississippi Project, SCLC is planning a ten-week summer program this year which may transform the organization. Its Summer Community Organization and Political Education Project (SCOPE) aims to send some 600 volunteers into about 70 rural Black Belt and urban counties in Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida to conduct programs in voter registration, adult literacy, and political education...
...weathered the usual rush of tax selling before April 15. On the international front, the U.S.'s military gains in Viet Nam, the nation's apparently successful campaign to narrow its balance-of-payments deficit and Britain's determination to solve its problems with a belt-tightening budget have generally given Wall Street a more positive outlook. Then, of course, there are all those record corporate profits (up some 9% in the first quarter) and bright economic indicators at home (see THE NATION). So long as they continue, the stock market is almost certain to move well...
Each class sections had about fifty students. We stood in the cafeteria because it had no chairs and the auditorium had only camp stools. The soccer field was ringed with a belt of basketball courts; there were more ping-pong tables than bathrooms. We had no central heat, of course, and since there was always competition between classes to save coal, we frequently went the whole winter without our little stoves; the ink would out by late afternoon...
...which is based in Northern metro politan areas, is expected to organizo arban Negroes on neighborhood issues to convince them of their political power. The SCLC will continue Martin Luther King's voter registration work in the Black Belt of Alabama...
...roots, the word Lent-akin to the way the days "lengthen" early in the year-essentially means spring. For Christians, it recalls Jesus' 40-day fast in the wilderness, and began to be observed no later than the 4th century. For medieval man, Lent was a grim, belt-tightening time: only one meal a day was permitted; meat, milk, eggs and cheese were forbidden foods...