Word: block
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stubborn. He is Wilbur Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, whose power is such that he virtually single handed held up a much-wanted tax cut during the Kennedy Administration. Chairman Mills has bluntly told the White House that he will do his best to block any congressional action on taxation this year, and that he rejects the elimination of the 7% investment credit in particular as being too little and too late...
...advocate the giving of material aid to "any hostile foreign power"-North Viet Nam, for instance -or to impede the movements of U.S. military personnel and materiel. Some protest groups have collected funds to buy medical supplies for Vietnamese Communists, and on a few occasions have attempted to block troop trains-acts that would be treasonable in war time but are difficult to punish legally in peacetime. Chairman Joe Pool of Texas, sponsor of the bill, and his subcommittee colleagues summoned both the practitioners of these methods and friendly witnesses to appear before them...
...means to achieve Black Power are revolutionary. The Negro is to use whatever tactics he is willing to take the consequences for, and this includes block voting, a general strike, or molotov cocktails. Carmichael is careful to dispel another myth--nonviolence, which he says the press attributed to SNCC. "We preach nonviolence among ourselves, but that's as far as it goes," Carmichael said. "They [the whites] don't tell you about the time we marched in Lawrence County with 900 armed men--they didn't mess with us," he added...
...tenement steps or splashing together in the spray of a fire hydrant. They depict the plight of slum children with touches of humor and pathos. One story tells of a kid who moves to Manhattan's Tenth Street and has to beat up the toughest boy on the block to be accepted. Main flaw in some books is that the integration is too tidy: illustrations too often show exactly three kids together-one Negro, one Puerto Rican and one white...
...group considered Taiwan the major block in relations between the two countries. The settlement of this issue is even more important than Vietnam, Cohen said. China does not maintain any diplomatic relations with any country recognizing Taiwan...