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Word: colors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...police officer who killed the child testified that he fired upon seeing the color of the child's skin, Wright said, but an almost-all-white jury acquitted him of murder charges...

Author: By Marin J. Strmecki, | Title: New York City Judge Attacks Racism in U.S. Court System | 2/16/1978 | See Source »

What did Red Sox color man Ken Harrelson do with all his Nehru jackets after they went out of style...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: 'For I'm a Jolly Good Fellow'... | 2/15/1978 | See Source »

...just the right to advocate love and sunshine, but also the right to advocate racism, sexism and many other obnoxious things. To dramatize that point, the American Library Association, whose members are often in the center of such controversies, produced a film entitled The Speaker. The 42-minute color movie describes a fictional controversy that develops when a high school student committee invites a scientist to explain his belief that blacks are genetically inferior to whites. The speaker, who is never actually seen or heard, is finally banned by the school board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Hateful Ideas | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

...expansion of education and state enterprises that French-speaking Quebecois call la Révolution Tranquille (the Quiet Revolution). With the door suddenly open to new opportunities, the church-oriented conservative rural habitant rapidly evolved into the secular, outgoing urban Quebecois, with typically North American tastes for big cars, color-television sets and le rock. Quebeckers trained in economics and sociology thronged into the glass-and-steel cubicles of a mushrooming provincial bureaucracy. But despite this rattrapage (catching up), English-speaking Canadians retained their dominant role in business. Among the 105 largest private companies in Quebec, only 14 have a majority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Secession v. Survival | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

Alas, the snow has forced the fans into action. Off the sofa and into the heat of battle. At Harvard, at least, the blizzard has turned a bunch of seemingly-lobotomized color TV radiation victims into participatory sportsmen...

Author: By Robert Grady, | Title: Winter Sports | 2/11/1978 | See Source »

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