Word: bleak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...however, personifies the Chicanos' bleak past, restless present and possible future in quite the manner of Cesar Chavez. He was the unshod, unlettered child of migrant workers. He attended dozens of schools but never got to the eighth grade. He was a street-corner tough who now claims as his models Emiliano Zapata, Gandhi, Nehru and Martin Luther King. He tells his people: "We make a solemn promise: to enjoy our rightful part of the riches of this land, to throw off the yoke of being considered as agricultural implements or slaves. We are free men and we demand justice...
These are the hot and sticky days in Djakarta. From countless roadside stands, spicy odors of cooking food mingle with the smell of the clove-scented cigarettes so favored in Indonesia. Skeletons of unfinished skyscrapers still stand as bleak monuments to the grandiose dreams of the Sukarno era; three-wheeled betjak rickshas duel with decrepit cars on the capital's crowded streets, just as they have for years. But despite the outward resemblances to the bad old days, change is coming to Indonesia. In sharp contrast to the early '60s, that change is for the better...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences met on the 15th and heard Dean Ford give a bleak picture of the Faculty budget. Because of higher expenses--mainly salaries--and lower income, Ford said that the Faculty might run a $2.4 million deficit this year...
During the bleak period after Jack Kennedy's assassination in 1963, it was Ethel whom Bobby relied on and talked to as he sorted out what to do with his life. "It was so difficult seeing Bobby so miserable," she says. "But we never really talked about pulling out of political life altogether. Bobby used to quote Lord Tweedsmuir on polities' being a very noble calling. It's a way of working directly to achieve the things you believe have to be or ought to be done." Eventually, Bobby returned to politics, first in a successful race for New York...
...rank-and-file unrest with articles in the Mine Workers Journal that apply such standard invective as "finks" and "professional fakers" to the dissidents. Boyle has accused them of "trying to lead a fight against the union for their own political expediency." The U.M.W. president, who rarely visits the bleak mine towns where his members precariously earn their living, has decided that he should do some campaigning himself. U.M.W. headquarters announced this week that Boyle will tour West Virginia to tell the miners "what the union has done for them...