Word: gain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...paid attention to Leander even though it had taken the Thames Cup with relative ease last July. It was a mistake both Harvard and Penn were to discover later. The Britishers had quietly brushed off early-round competition and early Friday unceremoniously dumped the Isis Boat Club to gain the semifinals...
...seamy San Jose, Calif., barrio called Sal Si Puedes ?"Get out if you can." Through Fred Ross, a tall, quiet organizer for Saul Alinsky's Community Service Organization, Cesar began to act on Alinsky's precept that concerted action is the only means through which the poor can gain political and economic power. Chavez, a Roman Catholic, has delved deeply into the papal social encyclicals, especially Rerum Novarum and Quadra-gesimo Anno.* "What Cesar wanted to reform was the way he was treated as a man," recalls his brother Richard. "We always talked about change, but how could...
...that was already rising across Europe. In one chancellery after another, old dossiers and old dreams were gingerly dusted off. Britain recalled its ambassadors to the six Common Market countries for an intensive two-day skull session in London to plot the strategy for a new British move to gain admission to the European Economic Community...
Irrelevant Heaven. Not surprisingly, efforts to establish a spiritual underpinning for black-church militancy have strong political overtones. The Atlanta statement, for example, closed with Eldridge Cleaver's belligerent manifesto: "We shall have our manhood. Or the earth will be leveled by our efforts to gain it." It spoke of a "theology of black liberation, the affirmation of black humanity that emancipates black people from white racism, thus providing authentic freedom for both white and black people." The 16 scholars implicitly endorsed James Forman's reparations demand on white churches (TIME, May 16) by recalling St. Luke...
...than they bought (see chart, page 72). That was possibly the biggest trade deficit that the U.S. has ever registered with any nation. Altogether, Japan's exports in 1968 rose by 25%, and its shipments to the U.S. accounted for more than two-fifths of the gain. The reason, many aggrieved U.S. businessmen contend, is that Japan has been flooding American markets with goods made at far lower wage rates than any U.S. company could get away with paying. Some $400 million worth of textiles were notable among those exports. Southern Congressmen have set up a rising clamor...