Word: closer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...themselves are to blame: they have awakened the Negro to what is available in America's opulent society and whetted his appetite for more. And, as Charles Silberman noted in his Crisis in Black and White: "The Negroes' impatience, bitterness, and anger are likely to increase the closer they come to full equality." In his desire for "more," the Negro has joined the rest of the crowd. But in his realization that he has a terribly long way to go before he will have as much as most whites -in jobs, in homes and in schooling...
...extremely expensive. Momentarily, the President is expected to renew his January request for a 6% surtax on personal and corporate income taxes, in hopes of whittling down the big budgetary deficit anticipated for the current fiscal year. Calling up the Reserves could have forced him to peg the surtax closer...
...make sure that welfare workers and agencies obey the rule of law, not just their own notion of what is good for welfare recipients. Responding, the Health, Education and Welfare Department has come out for the same thing. It recently commanded the states to pay far closer attention to "the constitutional and statutory rights of recipients...
...Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, traditionally one of the most aloof of U.S. denominations, is edging into the ecumenical century. At its biennial convention last week in New York City, the synod took some significant steps toward closer relations with other Christian churches...
...spite of some of these characteristics of laymen and clergy--because of others--the church came closer to Barmen than Westminster when it overwhelmingly approved the Confession...