Word: crows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...master, dispenser of all things. Many blacks were trapped in ghettos as surely and hopelessly as slaves on plantations. Perhaps civil rights organizations, designed to battle discrimination and hardening over the years into institutional mind-sets, could not adjust to new realities and needs after the structure of Jim Crow had been torn down. At worst, the Great Society turned the leaders into petitioners, even while thousands upon thousands of working-class blacks toiled in the hardest, dirtiest jobs rather than accept welfare...
...nation." J. Morgan Kousser, a political-science professor at Caltech, testified that "it was not possible to protect five Anglo incumbents without discriminating against the Hispanic population." The steps the board took to exclude Hispanics, he said, closely resemble those used to prevent blacks from voting in the Jim Crow South...
...news conference later, the President denied any intention to "gloat" or "crow" yet could scarcely restrain himself. Said he: "I do think ((the victory is)) going to be helpful in reaching accommodation in the House and Senate on some of our objectives." Added Mary Matalin, Republican Party chief of staff: "It's just another case where people underestimated the tenacity of George Bush. When he gets pushed up against the wall on something that he knows and cares about, he does whatever is necessary...