Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When organized in New York eight years ago, the Conservative Party consisted mainly of right-wing Republicans who could not abide the liberal wing led by Nelson Rockefeller, Jacob Javits and John Lindsay. Now the Conservatives have expanded beyond nuisance stature by attracting disaffected Democrats, principally blue-collar and middle-class Catholics, whose influence in the Democratic Party withered as Jews, blacks and Puerto Ricans gained power...
...devote ourselves to the challenges of peace, then I am pleased to call myself a radical." His stance added Berkeley to his almost monolithic black base in Oakland, and he won by 25,000 votes. Dellums campaigned in the union halls of the district's blue collar areas, too, arguing that "you do not leave the blue collar worker out there screaming for help...
...tuition and board/room fee increase of $300-$400, and because even with a slight reduction from 1974, the class of 1975 will include 75 more scholarship students than the graduating class of 1971. This latter increase, Peterson said, "reflects our success in reaching financially poor students from white blue-collar families as well as from black and other cultural minorities." Almost half the current freshman class is on scholarship...
...then Delinger. The one white man. He looked like the perennial blue collar worker. Worked hard all his life. Traveled the long and dusty road...
...attitude is widely and fervently shared in this almost completely blue collar city ten miles south of Milwaukee. The typical South Milwaukeean wants nothing so much as to be left alone to enjoy his material comforts. He defines the good life as owning his own home, two cars, a small boat and a color television set and enjoying the ultimate privilege of sending his children to college. Barring a serious economic slump, most families in South Milwaukee expect to reach these goals, though the effort to do so means that well over half of the wives must hold full-time...