Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lyndon Johnson, "the critical question that we face is whether we can, as one people, hold fast to our faith in each other and in this nation's purpose." There seemed to be something of a shortage of faith. Louis Harris took a survey after the assassination and reported that two out of three Americans believed there was something deeply wrong with their country; 53% agreed with the statement that "law enforcement has broken down and lawlessness has taken over...
Integration has been the aim of the Congress of Racial Equality since CORE was born in 1942. Its intramural squabbles have never been concerned with the principle of desegration but with its pace. Two years ago, Floyd McKissick replaced Founder James Farmer because he was not moving fast enough. Last week McKissick, in turn, was supplanted by a more aggressive lieutenant. CORE's new chief, however, advocates rigid separation of the races...
...impasse was born a new, freewheeling type of rock producer-usually as young and offbeat as the musicians themselves, steeped enough in the idiom to collaborate on songs, arrangements and electronic effects, and keenly attuned to "the street" (pop music's term for the fast-shifting mass market). Some of them went on record-company payrolls but most have remained independent, sometimes even wrapping up the complete record "package" before peddling it to the companies. Today roughly 70% of the releases that reach the bestseller charts are produced by the 100 or so independents now at work across...
...chronically starving Asia, reports of the new rice sounded like an invitation to a feast. It was tough and fast-growing, able to root almost anywhere and twice as bountiful as ordinary strains. Crossbred from a common tropical rice called peta (meaning seed) and an ancient Chinese variety known as dee-geo-woo-gen (brown-tipped, sharp-legged thing), IR8, as scientists tagged the hybrid, was promptly-and prematurely-labeled a miracle...
...newsmen and their producers seemed themselves too numbed to grasp full command of the story until several hours after the shooting. Huntley and Brinkley seemed uncommonly beside the point; the early reporting hours demanded more footwork and fast talk-and less punditry. NBC anchorman Frank McGee shared with Sander Vanocur the credit for the coolest and ablest reporting on any channel...