Word: feds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second thought I am heartened. Often during its lifetime the AFSC has been called "controversial." It fed German children in 1918-19. It helped the Finns after the Russian invasion. It helped victims on both sides of the Spanish revolution. It helped refugees from the French. These were indeed "controversial actions" in the eyes of the political adversaries of the people who were helped. The AFSC has helped thousands of students to understand problems involved in the northern slums, in the mining towns of the Kentucky mountains, in race problems in the south, in forgotten American Indian communities in Iowa...
...inherently hostile ethnic and religious groups: the sophisticated, dominant Arabs of the Moslem north, 9,000,000 strong; and, south of the 12th parallel, some 4,000,000 backward Negro tribesmen without a political voice. Abboud met frequent black incursions with stern, often savage military reprisals that only fed the flames...
...flag committee would vote accordingly. Four did - but not Quebec's Théogène Ricard, and the final committee vote was 10-4 (the chairman would vote only in case of a tie). Further more, all ten Quebec Conservatives in the House of Commons appear fed up with Diefenbaker's obstructionist tac tics at a time when pressing legislation is awaiting Parliamentary action. After hearing the committee report, they cau cused and announced that they will go their own way, supporting the com mittee flag...
...developed by the nonprofit Educational Research Corporation of Cambridge, relies on the programmed profiles of 2,850 schools that are stored in IBM machines. A-student marks his preferences (location, size, competitive standing, desired subjects) on a four-page booklet; the information is fed into the computer and out clatter the printed names of schools that match his demands. Average "print-out": between 20 and 30 colleges...
...hungered and fed, Johnson found himself steeped deeper and deeper in sentimentality. He became the folksy Texan who brought the presidency to the street corners of the nation, who left the issues of moment behind and instead doled out intimations of humility and provincial innocence. "Yes," he drawled in Peoria one day, "all day I have seen your smiling faces. All day I have looked into your happy countenances. All day I have seen the family life, the mothers and the children of America here in the heartland of the great state of Illinois, and those voices sound powerful...