Word: fall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President steered another wary course on the touchy issue of school-desegregation guidelines. Established by HEW, the guidelines required some Southern school districts that are still segregated to integrate by this fall, the rest by the fall of 1970. The possible punishment for non-compliance is the loss of federal financial assistance. For months, the guidelines had been the subject of an intense debate within the Administration. Conservatives, including Attorney General John Mitchell, favored giving Southern school districts more time to comply. Finch, smarting from his defeat in the Knowles affair, held out for no change...
Seen as sequential argument. The 1m-mortalist should stand or fall on the basis of such evidence. But because it is presented more as a loosely buttressed personal obsession, it is not obliged either to stand or fall. Instead, the book's thesis simply sways provocatively to the ritual accompaniment of Harrington's prose-a flexible alloy of Mao-revolutionary and Norman Vincent Peale-inspirational...
Anita O'Day come on next, singing "Let's fall in love--in the rain." I did. This is the sort of woman you want to hear in a smoky, grimy club when you've got some serious drinking to do. Full voice, swinging sound, a sexy dame. A classic of her genre...
...into a central core. At harvest time, wagons bearing fresh loads from the fields could enter by a separate driveway that led to the level above the stalls, then drive around the circle, distributing feed in the hayloft. A manure pit beneath the stable level permitted cow dung to fall through trapdoors and be easily carted away...
...finding and prosecuting violators, who may be fined up to $5,000 and jailed as long as a year. In addition, a victim may sue for twice the amount of any misrepresented finance charge and collect damages up to $1,000, plus court costs. The heaviest enforcement burden will fall on the Federal Trade Commission. FTC of ficials complain that "Z" will force their agency to regulate 1 ,500,000 more businesses without a penny of extra appropriations from Congress...