Word: breaks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poor by just about any definition-no plan offers more than a meager subsistence-but the most brutal poverty would be eliminated. Most of the 17 million not covered by welfare now would be included for the first time: with a floor under them, many families would begin to break the cycle of poverty that has kept them on welfare for, in some cases, three generations...
...more influential in the Arab world than ever be cause of its arms shipments, has staked its own claim to the use of the Mediterranean for its expanding navy, sharply increasing the danger of a direct U.S.-Russian confrontation on the high seas should a new Middle East war break...
...actually composed of interrupted arcs that spiraled almost imperceptibly inward. The inward motion, they decided, was an indication that the earth's wobble had begun to decrease for short periods of time. But between each of the arcs comprising the circle there was a break, marking a time when the wobble suddenly increased. Significantly, Mansinha and Smylie reported in Science, nearly all of the breaks occurred at the time of major quakes...
Inviting radicals or more blacks would not have meant solving any more problems, but it would at least have provided a break in the conference style. As it turned out, the most effective and stirring moments usually occurred when someone let down his guard, or when a dispute among conferees reproduced social conflicts in the conference room. The first day, John B. Oakes, editorial page editor of the New York Times, and Roy Innis squared off in a debate over the relative merits of integration and black separatism as solutions to black problems. While the exchange was nothing...
...they can also recognize an alternative. One which deals with the intent of violent political protest. If youthful protestors break the law in pursuit of a political objective they do not have to be treated simply as criminals. Kennedy can see this for the civil rights protests; under the new circumstances of 1968, perhaps a wider view of protest is needed...