Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bill should be considered before civil rights. Mr. Kennedy's Congressional tacticians point out that a Senate filibuster over civil rights would mean a serious delay in considering appropriation bills and other necessary bureaucratic measures. His economists claim that a tax bill's immediate impact on the economy might benefit Negroes more than a civil rights bill whose effects might not be felt for months after its passage. His political advisers would like to enter the 1964 campaign with the impetus provided by a newly passed civil rights bill, and with the economy booming from the full effects...
...Without benefit of Sartre, for instance, what is to be made of Our Lady of the Flowers? The book is infested with shadowy characters-like the handsome pimp known as "Darling Daintyfoot"-who come to gruesome ends after enjoying a succession of couplings and even triplings. The heroine at first seems to be a dead prostitute called "Divine." But Divine is also referred to as "Lou" and "Culafroy," and it is eventually apparent that she is Jean Genet. It is also clear that she is not really a she but a he in she's clothing...
...behest of the governor of Jamaica, a bloodthirsty Blimp named Edward Eyre, British troops slaughtered 500 Jamaican Negroes, some without benefit of court-martial; they flogged and tortured 1,000 others, many of them women and children. The British met no real resistance, did not lose a single man. "Hole is doing a splendid service shooting every black man who cannot account for himself," one officer gaily wrote. "Nelson at Port Antonio hanging like fun by court-martial. I hope you will not send any black prisoners. Do punish the blackguards well...
...dies or when a dwarfed man fails to find a mate. A high mortality rate is not necessary for natural selection to operate. The great danger to man is not the suppression of natural selection but what is called the population explosion. Man must regulate his behavior for the benefit of future generations. If he will not take measures to avoid the coming population crisis, he hardly needs to bother about genetics...
...battle of the blades is raging among major U.S. razor manufacturers, all of whom have introduced a long-lasting but costly stainless steel product. No matter which razor gets the edge, the steelmakers of Sweden stand to benefit, for they supply the stainless steel used in 90% of the blades...