Word: direct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Third, keeping groups segregated allows for direct and open confrontation of realities and fantasies tied to integration even when the leader is white. The gang boys' admissions to the leader about their racial fears is an example...
...students who have not yet enlisted, may I point out to Mr. Ball that our reluctance stems in part from our doubts about the ability of our country's leaders to conduct America's affairs and the competence of our military professionals to direct the war effort. When an American ship is attacked on the high seas and we make no reply other than the inevitable mouthings of "diplomacy"; when we expend lives in an assault on the strategic Hill 881N and then return the prize to the enemy when we have won it, enabling him to continue...
...Sanh grows steadily shabbier. More and more "hardbacks" (metal-roofed shacks) are tumbled by the incoming; day by day the protective sandbags and runway matting rise higher on bunkers. Even so, the bunkers cannot withstand direct hits. A rocket or mortar round will collapse a bunker and likely kill its occupants. The Seabees are finishing strong underground bunkers for the control-tower crew of Khe Sanh's airstrip and the evacuation hospital, rushing to complete the work before the threatened battle erupts. Meanwhile, the doctors must make do in cramped quarters: the operating room is an empty metal...
Almost every city in Europe has its white elephant of a cathedral-decaying stone edifices with more maintenance problems than worshipers in the pews. In the Dutch city of Rotterdam, Roman Catholic Bishop Martinus Jansen has come up with a direct, if drastic, solution for his cathedral problem: he has sold it to the wreckers...
This leads us next to the next renewal area. There will be some change in the off-ramps affording the pedestrian some means of direct access to the Waterfront. With a relocated Atlantic Avenue, a combination of highrise apartment houses, town houses, and some converted warehouses (into apartments), hundreds of millions of dollars is being invested in new construction for Boston in the Waterfront Project...