Word: citizens
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...years ago, Randolph became an American citizen...
...proved to be the perfect poster girl for the revamped institution. Reflecting on her First year of 1947, Rich recalls a "lack of caring about the minds that inhabit a woman's body." It was an era during which, as Rich recalls, a woman scholar was a second-class citizen. She, however, emerged from the postwar university epoch as a distinguished scholar, graduating from Radcliffe with the prestigious Yale Younger Poets Award...
...also tried to seal off the growing Bush outcry over the quality of the counts themselves, thanking the "citizen volunteers of both parties" for working so hard and so well. "As Americans always do," Gore intoned, "they are rising to the occasion." They'd better - they'll likely be working on Thanksgiving...
...move to expand voting rights to adolescents comes on the heels of the council's decision last week to allow non-citizen immigrants to vote in school committee elections...
...latest batch of documents also contains evidence of U.S. intelligence agencies' gathering information about U.S. citizen Frank Teruggi (including his Chilean address), who was later detained at his home by Pinochet's security forces, taken to Santiago's National Stadium and summarily executed. But such individual instances point to a broader pattern of support for efforts to overthrow an elected leftist government - President Nixon tells a National Security Council meeting in 1972 that "we must do everything we can to bring down Allende." And previously released documents point to U.S. government efforts to support the Pinochet junta despite mounting congressional...