Word: drew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Psychedelic Shack." All these grandiose items jostle each other benignly without ever coalescing into a meaningful idea: it's just Giovanni presenting her unreal ego. And Time likes to call the poet "a shrewd and energetic propagandist." It kind of reminds you of Beverly Johnson, the black model, who drew the attention of the mass media when she danced around a fantastically big can of deodorant on television...
...race relations or harden attitudes and breed a new generation of racists. After examining 120 studies, Sociologist Nancy St. John of the University of Massachusetts found no definitive answers but decided that desegregation worsened race relations in quite a few cases. James Deslonde, an education professor at Stanford University, drew similar conclusions from a study of 1,200 fourth-through eighth-graders in the integrated schools of San Mateo County, south of San Francisco. He reported that peer pressure prevented 35% of the students from forming friendships across racial lines. Further, most black youngsters experienced "high levels of anxiety within...
...white pupils stayed home, although most of the 300 blacks assigned to the school made the long ride from the city. Many of the black students were nervous as they approached their new schools. As one busload of blacks from Shawnee Junior High School in Louisville drew up to Valley Station High in the suburbs, Leslie Lacy, 17, commented anxiously, "I think I'll paint myself white and go back to Shawnee...
...rally in the Kentucky fairgrounds the night before school opened drew 10,000 orderly, but angry protesters. The crowd bought hundreds of T shirts with slogans like OPPOSE TYRANNY printed across the front...
...International Monetary Fund. At the IMF's annual meeting of finance ministers in Washington last week, Witteveen suggested that the three leading industrial powers were all but dutybound to pursue more stimulative economic policies in order to "lead the world to recovery." Witteveen's argument drew prompt rebuttals from all three nations. Said U.S. Treasury Secretary William Simon: "We believe we have taken adequate measures to protect our economy...