Word: favority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wouldn't be caught dead in this store on the first day of classes, but I thought I'd do him a favor," Fukuyama said, indicating his companion...
...gains of women and oppressed nationalities, passivity is intolerable. The conservative forces have been mounting an ideological campaign against Affirmative Action for years. Apparently, they are now prepared to transform this ideological campaign into a political attack. Given this situation, the active motion of the University population in favor of democratic rights is crucial to resistance to the new Jim Crow
Taking their places are politically savvy lawmen like Robert L. (for Lee, naturally) Turner, 46, of Autauga County, Ala. Like most of his Deep South colleagues, who generally still favor straightening out troublemakers in the woods behind the courthouse. Turner is a firm believer in law-and-order. But he made certain to pass out his "Sheriff Turner" pens last year evenhandedly to blacks and whites alike; his constituency of 25,000 is 28% black. Turner's law-enforcement philosophy: "We do our dead-level best to negotiate rather than have a bunch of folks get hurt. The [white...
Louisiana Feminist Annabelle Walker, demurely dressed in a hoop skirt and twirling a parasol, demonstrated in favor of the Equal Rights Amendment last year. "A man shies away from an overly aggressive female," warns Gale Childers, who nonetheless has been aggressive enough to be a South Carolina bank branch manager at the age of 30. Alabama State Treasurer Melba Till Allen owes much of her success at the polls to her charming, ultrafeminine manner. Says she, "I don't believe that a woman could win in Alabama if she were not a lady." Yet Allen recently showed...
Eventually, the intersectional balance began to shift in favor of the South. The tipping point came in the Great Depression production. The first sign of the change was a renaissance in Southern literature. A brilliant group of Southern poets, novelists and playwrights threw off the bonds of imitation and poured out works of power and innovative genius that were overwhelmingly Southern in subject matter as well as style. For the mass market, cruder Southern products flooded the land: hillbilly music, gospel music, the Grand Ole Opry...