Word: breaks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...westerners and Jews. Curiously, blacks would turn the son over to the police by a bigger margin than whites-42% to 38%, v. 42% to 41%, Those who would not turn in the son said that they would send him to a doctor or psychiatrist, or help him break the habit themselves...
...month and election-eve opinion surveys. There was a palpable realization that something was missing. No gracious concession came from the loser, Negro Councilman Thomas Bradley, who said that the preceding weeks had witnessed "the dirtiest campaign in this city's history." Yorty, normally so jaunty when things break right for him, was no Struttin' Sam on election night. Surrounded by bodyguards, he made a perfunctory appearance before his supporters, said unwontedly little, and left early. Nor, indeed, was there much to celebrate in the bitter post-election atmosphere. Unmistakably, the prime components of Yorty's victory...
...West German exhibition, he and Politburo Ideologue Mikhail Suslov were shown a set of unbreakable dishes. Handing a plate to Suslov, Brezhnev said, "Let's see if they are telling the truth." Both men banged the plates hard against the exhibition table, but they did not break...
...vitiate these benefits by handing Mao a "success" against the U.S. and seeming to signal a lessening of American firmness throughout Asia. Advocates against change also argue that a softer U.S. line would help Maoism recover from its self-inflicted domestic wounds, and would eventually lead the U.S. to break its commitment to Taiwan...
...result, thousands of Negro youngsters are trying to enter public colleges across the country. But if they fail to qualify, often because they went to poor high schools, how can the colleges admit them without diluting their own academic standards? More deeply, how can the colleges give blacks a break without suffering a white backlash...