Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...small, diffident man with a fifth-grade education, who was soon to become the Executive President of the Republic of Venda, a Delaware-sized region tucked in the northeast corner of South Africa. As Venda's new four-color flag fluttered in the breeze overhead, Mphephu told his fellow citizens, "We must be prepared to preserve and defend this newly won dream...
...most outside observers, that dream seemed more like a mirage. The mango-patch "republic" (pop. 480,000) is unlikely to win recognition from any nation apart from South Africa, Zimbabwe Rhodesia, and its fellow black homeland states of Transkei and BophuthaTswana, which obtained "independence" from Pretoria in 1976 and 1977. The fragility of Venda's new status was even reflected in its stage-prop capital, Thohoyandou ("head of the elephant"). Pretoria had hastily fitted out the town for the occasion with a cluster of government buildings, a hotel, a supermarket and the stadium...
...well as whites.* He estimated that a quarter of the IQ gap was due to environmental and cultural differences, the rest to genetics. Liberal academics and blacks denounced Jensen as a racist. Margaret Mead and others staged an unsuccessful fight to strip the professor of his status as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In the uproar over the Jensenist heresy, one black psychologist angrily called IQ testing "a multimillion-dollar supermarket of oppression," and the National Education Association urged a moratorium on all IQ tests of the young...
...credit department of the New York Trust Co., Roy Larsen heard that two Yalemen, Briton Hadden and Henry Luce, were about to launch a new weekly magazine. A friend in publishing encouraged Larsen to apply for a job, but warned that Luce and Hadden were "awfully strong-minded fellows. Can you take it? They had another fellow who couldn...
...realist. Publicly he has acknowledged the difficulty involved in supplanting old attitudes, which he calls "hangovers form the capitalist value system." Even though the revolution has managed to change the foundation of society from one of competition to cooperation, stealing from the government at the expense of fellow workers persists...