Word: gain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bank, William F. Hudgins. Hudgins feels that going to the people by taking to the pulpit is a legitimate tactic in his crusade to bring full banking service to a community where discrimination in the money market is one of its many economic handicaps. He hopes not only to gain new accounts for the bank, but to modernize the churchgoers' primitive financial habits. Many have never seen the inside of a bank...
...many Negroes, refusal of the church mortgage until the bank has picked up extra depositors is a clear case of exploitation. To the skeptics, the Freedom National Bank is simply an example of middle-class Negroes taking advantage of race sympathy for their own personal gain. To them, Hudgins' bank, like the other ten, white-run, banks in Harlem, is one more part of the power structure, one more reason why Harlem is an economic colony of New York City. They feel that Negro bankers who live outside Harlem--as do almost all of Freedom National's 50 employees...
...choice. It can make an all-out effort to enlist the support of the community over the protest of white depositors and board members, thus attracting a sufficiently large number of small accounts from the "man in the street" to survive. But the directors have made little effort to gain the sympathy of the masses. "When we have to read about what Freedom National is doing in the papers or hear about it over the radio," says one Negro social worker, "they can't be doing too much in Harlem...
Russia obviously has much to gain by restructuring the Warsaw Pact. Pressure is on from Moscow's allies-principally Rumania-to cut back on defense costs and remove Russian troops from East Germany, Hungary and Poland. After all, they have a way of discouraging nationalism. Nearly half of the Soviet ground force is currently stationed west of the Urals-where much less than half the danger to Russia now originates. The only hot war in the world is in the Far East, and Red China is still hungry for the Mongolian territory Russia claims...
...gave Boswell six interviews and sent him on his way with a sackful of quotes. Nine days later, Boswell was interviewing Europe's most famous author-Voltaire. In the course of a furious argument about God, Boswell pressed so hard that the wily Frenchman feigned a faint to gain a respite. But when Boswell left, they were friends and he was walking on air. "What variety my mind is capable of!" he wrote in his journal. "I have a noble soul...