Word: feds
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...justice we have just witnessed in Lowndes County, Ala. [Oct. 8]. If there is any sure sign of decay in the fiber of this country, it is in allowing this legal fakery to go on. Alabama has become a modern Colosseum where good men, Negro and white, are fed to the animals...
...since the accepted criteria (less than $4,000 a year for a family or $2,000 for an individual) classify as poor many elements of the population, notably students, servicemen and many small farmers, who live reasonably well. Many of those who are considered "impoverished" today are clothed, housed, fed, educated and entertained (TV in 93% of U.S. homes); hunger and exposure have "statistically disappeared" as causes of death...
Ready for Plucking. From time to time there is talk that Castro's army will one day turn on him. After all, it is a Latin American army. But these troops have always seemed too well-fed, too pleased with their toys to give Cubans much hope. They are also young-members of the Cuban youth that Castro works incessantly to indoctrinate. "Our commitment," says Jorge Enrique Mendoza, national director of the state scholarship program, "is to forge Communists...
...flow, and it did not ebb for nearly a century. A blight in Ireland and a pogrom in Russia, a famine in Scandinavia and civil strife in South China, starvation in Sicily and crop failures in Greece, a wave of political repression in the Austro-Hungarian Empire-all fed the tide. It crested in the decade 1905-14, when more than 10,100,000 men, women and children poured into the U.S., most of them through the grim portals of New York Harbor's Ellis Island...
...Depression, Americans starved. "In the wet hay of leaking barns," wrote John Steinbeck, "old people curled up in corners and died that way, so that the coroners could not straighten them." About 2,000 Americans still die yearly from diseases of malnutrition, and many of the poor are poorly fed. The official U.S. poverty definition is based on the Department of Agriculture's "economy" food plan ("essentially for emergency use"): large helpings of bread, rice, dried beans and peas, cereals, rare servings of meat, no out-of-season or convenience foods...