Word: drifting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most Jamaicans regard farming as too servile; by the thousands they drift into the Kingston capital seeking clerk and factory jobs, but these are so scarce that an estimated 22% of Jamaica's 650,000-man work force is unemployed...
...when in the middle of a mob scene-for the same reasons he has shirked leadership. He has no principles upon which to base his programs. The programs are solely political. He has no principles upon which to base his foreign policy. His policy is one of sidestepping-of drift, deceit and defeat. He cannot face the glare of discussion because he cannot face the glaring questions of his fellow citizens. He talks of peace, but he has no stomach to face up to the main threat to peace -Communism...
ZULU. A heroic band of British redcoats fights off hordes of proud native warriors in this bloody, bristling adventure film based on a historic battle at Rorke's Drift, Natal...
...Bing Crosby Show has a similar asset. Crosby plays Bing Collins, an electrical engineer with a wife (Beverly Garland) and two daughters. All he did last week was drift through a nostalgic routine that kidded middle age. Even the laughs were wearing baggy sweaters, but he drew them...
...unnerving degree of chance rules curriculum change in most of the 30,000 local school systems in the U.S. Lacking the financial and scholarly resources to rewrite courses, they have to take curriculums in packages from textbook publishers and teachers colleges. An energetic exception to this educational drift is suburban Cleveland, where 27 private, public and parochial school systems are partners in the Educational Research Council, a nonprofit laboratory for learning founded five years ago with backing from civic-minded Cleveland business leaders...