Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HOWEVER, Fulp admitted that the problem of meeting financial commitments is a real one for many ghetto dwellers. "People here have no reason to believe anything but that they are at the bottom today and they'll be there tomorrow," he said. "We try to convince them of the greater possibilities so they will have a reason to accept their responsibilities...
...interested in foreign affairs that he may not want an overly independent Secretary of State. In that case, he might pick Pennsylvania's William Scranton, who recently trekked to Europe on a fact-finding tour for him. If Nixon finally decides on an individualist for Foggy Bottom, the odds favor Douglas Dillon, who would have been Secretary of State in 1960 had Nixon won. Scranton might then become Ambassador to the United Nations. McGeorge Bundy, a Republican who served both Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, was once considered for State, but his call for a bombing halt hurt his chances...
...wearing a long, extra long, shiny gray suit, white shirt, thin red tie, short hair, and, notable among his expressionless features, straight-staring, hard-looking eyes. While speaking, he lines up his green blotter with the bottom of his desk. He runs his thumb along the ridge to make sure the blotter edge are even. Then he places his square pen stand in the bottom right hand corner of the blotter. That leaves him, finally, with only my information sheet, with which he improvises, placing it on top or to the left of the pen stand, perfectly even with...
...school for pride, black culture and job training. 1 Smith, the greatest source for pride is that Bootstrap was born and now lives without handouts from a Government agency. Says he: "Change is going to come in this country, and it's going to come from the bottom...
...activists at the bottom are unlikely to achieve the miracle reforms that skeptics often demand, and many a Doer crusade is quixotic-witness those largely unsuccessful if unflagging dreamers who battle against highway billboards, jet sonic booms and all-digit telephone dialing. All the same, big social explosions these days are usually caused by a pile-up of many small problems-nearly all of them soluble by small-scale activism. The fact is that democracy needs Doers at every level. How can the U.S. ensure that there are always enough to go around? Does it develop them? The answer...