Word: gal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...P.C.I. Deputies (227 of 630) and Senators (116 of 315) abstain on key votes, thus lending implicit Communist support to unpopular government programs, including the stangata (sting)-the tough austerity measures that, among other things, have hiked the price of gasoline by 25% (bringing it to $2.25 a gal. for super) and increased postal, electric and telephone rates. Communist leaders argue that giving passive support to Andreotti is an important step toward the party's goal of participating officially with the Christian Democrats in the government, the historic compromise...
...rationed. Street lights in certain areas are no longer turned on. Although many Poles have money in the bank, there is little to spend it on. The waiting time for a new Polish-built Fiat is from three to five years, and gasoline has risen 70%, to $2.07 per gal., since 1973. About 1.5 million people must share their dwellings with other families; the waiting period for an apartment is often as long as ten years. Sixty miles south of Warsaw, in the town of Radom, where last summer workers set fire to the local Communist Party headquarters, a Catholic...
What actually happened in that interview does not easily lend itself to investigation. Bowman says the recruiter told her the firm once had "a gal like you" working for them--"she was just like you, only shorter"--and that the last black who worked for them now works for Clorox--"Isn't that funny, a black working for a bleach company?" John H. Morrison, the recruiter, categorically denies the offensive remarks. The matter, then, could only be decided in terms of Bowman's word against Morrison...
...most Southern whites, blacks were not entitled to normal courtesies. In courtrooms, black witnesses were usually called by their first names or "uncle" or "gal." In some Southern towns, blacks were obliged to step off the sidewalk into the street to make room for passing whites. In some areas they were warned to be out of town by sunset. The few black policemen could not arrest whites...
...James Callaghan summoned vacationing Cabinet members back to No. 10 Downing Street for an emergency meeting and asked Sports Minister Denis Howell to assume responsibility for conserving what remains of the country's dwindling water supplies. Howell immediately asked his countrymen, who now use an average of 39 gal. of water a day, to halve their consumption. He also urged Britons to spy on their neighbors and report any "abuses or misuses" of water. "The flowers are going to have to wilt," said Howell, "and cars will have to remain dirty...