Word: choses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ways that he shouldn't choose the white schools. Teachers and students could make it pretty miserable for pioneering black students. If that did not give them the idea, employers and merchants could subtly let black parents know that their economic future would be brighter if their children "chose" the black schools...
When the Food Stamps program began, counties were given the option of choosing between it and Surplus Commodities. Most Alabama counties chose Food Stamps. But that wasn't good; because whatever its drawbacks, the Surplus Commodities plan had one indisputable advantage for poor families--it was free. No matter how little money the family had, it could always count on getting some food...
...were entirely different from uprisings in the ghettos. Those were spontaneous, disorganized, racial. Chicago, in fact, was a formal, prearranged confrontation between the Old and New Politics. Central Casting could have produced no better field marshal for the Old Politics army. Like some 18th century European general, Mayor Daley chose the place of battle, formed his battalions, set his lines of defense, and established his criteria for defeat or victory: there would be no disturbances in the streets of Chicago. The leftist youth leaders-Tom Hayden, David Dillinger, Jerry Rubin-drew up their counterstrategy and took the field, determined...
Only a few months ago, hardly any one much cared how Charles Quitman Stephens, 57, chose to lead his life. An unemployed bulldozer operator, Stephens drew a veteran's modest pension from the Government, lived alone in a room rented for $10 a week in downtown Memphis, and had a reputation for drinking. Stephens would have continued to attract small notice had he not been present in his rooming house on the afternoon that Martin Luther King Jr. was shot to death while standing on a motel balcony a few hundred feet away...
...main problem was to combine glass, which frames views of the Kreeger's 5½-acre lot, with hanging room for their art. To solve their problem, Johnson chose a style that he terms "Mediterranean modern," designed the house as a series of modular galleries topped with lifted cross-vaults. These give it a vague resemblance to Istanbul's domed Hagia Sophia, which has led some Washington wags to dub it "Bauhaus Byzantine...