Word: bents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...available. "To give the Negro the vote," says Amelia Boynton, chairman of the Dallas County Voters League, "has cost worry, blood, sweat, jobs and lives. It is a privilege he should have had all the time. It is one he should use regardless." In Dallas County many Negroes are bent on ousting racist Sheriff Jim Clark and support his rival, Selma's relatively moderate Public Safety Director Wilson Baker. - The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee under Stokely Carmichael has mounted a door-to-door campaign to keep Negroes away from the primary polls, even if it means the defeat...
...most coveted escaped her. It was by Picasso. When he asked her age, she replied to his delight: "Older than you are!" But nothing pleased him. "You might not live long enough to finish it," warned Mme. Rubinstein, then 92. Picasso sketched away, tossed one on the floor. She bent to pick it up, and he put his foot on it. She pleaded; he would not budge. In that contest of wills, Picasso was the winner...
...control over anti-poverty expenditures. There was talk of "political assassination" to oust officeholders accused of "keeping us down." Mrs. Unita Blackwell of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party declared: "The Federal Government ought to be ashamed of itself. The same men who pay us $3 a day and are bent on putting people off the land-that's the men who are on the poverty committee. You just come up with the resources, and we'll show you what we can do with the money." Carl Johnson of Harlan County, Ky., said his area was no better...
...Levine had been a staff physician at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and was in consultant in cardiology there when he died. He was also affiliated with six other hospitals throughout the country...
...Harvard established the Samuel A. Levine Professorship with a gift from the late Charles E. Merrill of New York. Last year Peter Bent Brigham Hospital opened a cardiac center named after Dr. Levine. The center is an intensive care unit for heart disease patients...