Word: calm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...everything around here is pretty calm," a middle-aged black man leaning against the steep cement stairwell to his wooden apartment house said, sipping from a carton of Tropicana and taking in some of the already intense morning sun. "You see, we already had busing here, so it ain't nothing new to us. Yeh," he said again, nodding thoughtfully, "It's pretty calm, all right...
...head of a school bus. This year, however, a rift has opened in the organization and the two are engaged in a real cat fight, Palladino pulling about a quarter of their joint constituency away to start a new group, United ROAR. The factionalism may explain much of the calm this fall; certainly Palladino has lost much of her native support in Italian East Boston, and her and Hick's extremist tack may have seen its heyday. Palladino, at least, will probably go the usual route of politicians who have lost their local leg up to higher office...
...everything around here is pretty calm," a middle-aged black man leaning against the steep cement stairwell to his wooden apartment house said, sipping from a carton of Tropicana and taking in some of the already intense morning sun. "You see, we already had busing here, so it ain't nothing new to us. Yeh," he said again, nodding thoughtfully, "It's pretty calm, all right...
...head of a school bus. This year, however, a rift has opened in the organization and the two are engaged in a real cat fight, Palladino pulling about a quarter of their joint constituency away to start a new group, United ROAR. The factionalism may explain much of the calm this fall; certainly Palladino has lost much of her native support in Italian East Boston, and her and Hick's extremist tack may have seen its heyday. Palladino, at least, will probably go the usual route of politicians who have lost their local leg up to higher office...
...line and the white kids arriving on foot in another, and I'll tell you if there had been one rock thrown or one racial slur escaped, we would have seen a fight they'd never stop talking about. But they stood silent, and it was calm, and the kids did it," Wineger says...