Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bloc for Ability. As with any ethnic or religious group, Negroes will on occasion undoubtedly deliver a bloc vote for their own candidates, particularly if they are qualified and appealing, or challenge a segregationist...
...foreign aid practically ensure survival for any nation that wins independence, however great its problems. Anyone with half a chance gets a whole chance, as evidenced by the nearly $7 billion doled out to the new nations from the industrialized West and $500 million each year from the Communist bloc...
...accuse Senator Fulbright of a "blind spot" in not accepting the myth of a monolithic-belligerent Communist bloc is to reveal your own. That Communist doctrine is neither monolithic nor necessarily nor always belligerent is no longer an opinion. It's a fact! I know of no reputable scholar who would argue otherwise...
...even sends British shoppers away muttering in frustration. To escape from its complicated structure (?2 8s. 6d. for a bottle of Scotch), many Commonwealth and former Commonwealth countries are switching to the decimal currency system used by 95% of the world's people. Barbados and other sterling bloc territories in the British West Indies converted in 1955, South Africa in 1961. The Bahamas will switch this year, New Zealand next year. Even Britain is considering a change...
...Quitniks." Fulbright's tactics have certainly encouraged the G.O.P. Says Pennsylvania's Senator Hugh Scott in a speech planned for a Lincoln Day luncheon this week: "Today a tiny proportion of Americans counsel a 'quit-nik' policy. These quitniks have found their voice in a bloc of members of the Democratic Party. At this rate, President Johnson may have to sue his own party for nonsupport...