Word: bleaknesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years ago this week, on the bleak balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, black America lost its greatest modern-day leader. In the death of Martin Luther King Jr., the entire nation also lost a part of its conscience?a very human scale by which to weigh its commitment to racial justice. Bewildered whites dedicated to nonviolence wondered to whom they could now relate when they thought?as they did perhaps all too rarely?about blacks. For a time, blacks reacted with inevitable rage as well as sorrow, and agonized over their lack of leadership...
Down done down and bleak for Sam's sake, Merilee forced apart his granite knees and settled herself between them, put her feet up over and around his heavy hips. She lifted carefully carefully his heavy paws, one and then the other, onto her knees. Her hands over his. Waited. Looked deep into him, his big black dises. And he did not object. The hassle and the quaking were going to pass now and all her knowledge and strength pass beautifully into...
...meeting-like one a year earlier at the White House-was intended to force the industry into some kind of dramatic action. But at yet another meeting with the utilities last month, Brown announced that there had been virtually no progress. The statistical picture he painted was bleak...
...called the Devil's Woodyard in the 18th century, when brawling lumberjacks settled there. Now called Lamar, the bleak little tobacco town of 1,350 in eastern South Carolina was convulsed last week in another kind of violence, an atavistic rebellion against the influx of black children to a predominantly white school...
Dropping in on a class in the Eskimo language at Rankin Inlet, Northwest Territories, Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau learned one phrase -possibly the only one a visitor needs in that bleak settlement. The word is takva oost, and it means goodbye...