Word: fostered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Making It Big. Product of a broken North Carolina home, reared by foster parents from the age of eight, Joel made the Army a career because he was convinced that "you couldn't make it really big" as a Negro on the outside. Promotion came slowly, and he was once busted for arguing with a sergeant. Then, on a fiery slope near Bien Hoa in November 1965, Joel met Victor Charlie. As his platoon was devoured by enemy crossfire, and he himself took two slugs in the legs, Joel hobbled and crept through the holocaust to patch ripped chests...
...boost local organizing. Contacts can be made and relationships formed which would encourage a much greater sense of unity than the fragmentation and frustration that now characterize the left." In truth it is precisely "the intrinsic drama and importance of a challenge on the presidential level" which can best foster "the fragmentation and frustration that now characterize the left." The Wallace campaign, though forged in the same spirit of ostensible unity that pervades the Levinson-Kearns article, contributed to the collapse of the left in the '40's as a potent political force. Maybe it contributed as well...
...designate the school of his choice. Choices must be made during the current school year, with no second guesses permitted when the new year begins. If overcrowding results, students will be assigned to the schools nearest their homes, without regard to race or color. The state is enjoined to foster integration in all other areas of public education: the location of new schools, faculty assignments, bussing, and spending per pupil...
...historian called the administration's escalation of the Vietnam war a part of a foreign policy which "would rejoice the heart of John Foster Dulles." He urged the Democratic party to reorganize around a coalition of university intellectuals, liberal clergy, and people concerned with the Negro revolution and urban movements...
...didn't," allows Moreau. "we would have had to invent him." Translation: We all need our illusions no matter how false we know they are. After seeing Tony Richardson's most recent flopdoodles-Mademoiselle, The Loved One, and now Sailor-moviegoers may have a new illusion to foster: that the man who directed Tom Jones and Taste of Honey is worth watching...