Word: gain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state's swelling Negro vote. "I do not believe that the Negro is inferior," Flowers told eager Negro audiences. "I am a man of the law and, like it or not, I am going to follow the law. Every individual is entitled to, and shall gain, equal opportunities." Refreshing as those words might have been to newly enfranchised Negroes, they were heresy to Alabama's old-line whites. And when Martin Luther King began promoting a GROW-WITH-FLOWERS bloc vote among Negroes, Lurleen began to look like Joan of Arc to anxious white supremacists...
...When you are President," Johnson reflected recently, "you have nothing more to gain personally and you look around and say, 'How am I doing my job?' because that's all that matters. As time passes, criticism becomes irrelevant. You can avoid it only by saying nothing, doing nothing, being nothing...
...growth of violence," he told the National Association of Purchasing Agents in Detroit, "by the riots, vandalism, irresponsible demonstrations, the tendency toward rebellion for its own sake." The way to overhaul it all, said Ford, is "to join the war on poverty. The free-enterprise system will not gain the acceptance it needs until all men share in the abundance that system provides." One night after Henry spoke, he shared some of his own abundance with an unworthy citizen-the thief who foot-padded into his Manhattan apartment and disappeared with $50,000 worth of his wife Christina...
Harvard rallied in the third quarter to gain a 6-5 edge on goals by Dex Newton and Marty Cain...
...second period Dick Oerhle ran in without his gloves, a bad omen for the Crimson. Harvard did not gain possession of the ball until the 6:30 mark. The Indians, however, could not break through the Harvard defense all the while...