Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wherever we were located, we felt that our purpose in being there was for the school to exploit our knowledge of the black community. We felt we had to stop this drainage of our knowledge, and use it for our own benefit," he said...
...behalf of blacks. Two of his civil service commissioners have been indicted on charges of favoring Negro applicants to the police department. The Fraternal Order of Police took full-page newspaper ads to denounce the mayor. Ralph Perk, the Republican county auditor, seemed a candidate well equipped to benefit from Stokes' color and the old-country orientation of Cleveland's working-class population. Of Czech background. Perk is married to an Italian-American and has a daughter-in-law of Slovenian descent. He did not openly court racist sentiment, but did concentrate on white audiences in the ethnic...
Since tuition alone cannot pay the bills at Sandy Run, the difference is being made up through contributions, solicitation by teachers and benefit parties-such as the "Harvest Carnival" recently staged by the Ladies Auxiliary, which netted the school $500. Sandy Run's eleven teachers are paid a maximum of $5,000 a year, compared with $7,300 in the public schools. All are college graduates, though several lack required credits for teaching in public schools. Headmaster William Jackson, 54, a retired public school teacher, insists that he and his staff are motivated by simple love of learning...
...tougher than most of Christo's projects. First, permission to wrap the area was obtained from the Prince Henry Hospital, which owns the land and will benefit from the proceeds. Then a task force of 60 volunteers labored for nearly a month over treacherous 80-ft. cliffs. They knotted and secured ropes, sewed the fabric together, and operated the 20 ramset guns used to fire staples into the rock face. The sound of the pounding surf below barred direct communication among the workers, so two-way radios were used. Midway through the project, a gale-force wind ripped...
...have been a Dominican friar who came from the Geldern region of The Netherlands and studied or worked in Paris or Burgundy before settling in Hamburg. Probably he spent his life in monkish seclusion (like his contemporary Fra Angelico in Italy), painting for the glory of God and the benefit of his order while the fame of his brush spread throughout the Hanseatic trading towns of Eastern Europe to the farthest reaches of the Baltic. Commissions came in to his monastery from as far away as Estonia and Finland...