Word: galle
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gall Stones...
...very obvious attack on religion in this country took place May 4, 1969 when a man had the unmitigated gall to walk into a church and demand 60% of its annual income for "reparation" for slavery [May 16]. I question the true motives of people like Forman. I don't believe they are after reparation; I believe they are after something bigger, whether it be an attempt to establish black supremacy, or part of a plan even more nefarious. Slavery died over 100 years ago, and today's Negro is no more a slave than is today...
...Clay and John C. Calhoun sold their votes and oratory to the bank. In the Civil War, great fortunes were hatched from corrupt federal contracts. Early in the 20th century, the National Association 'of Manufacturers bought Congressmen and influenced appointments to key committees. Nothing since has matched the gall of Harding's Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall, who pocketed $268,000 in the Teapot Dome caper...
Died. Bella Dodd, 64, teacher and political activist whose penchant for political reform led her to both ends of the spectrum; following gall bladder surgery; in Manhattan. While teaching political science at New York's Hunter College in the 1920s and '30s, she was one of Communism's most strident U.S. voices. In 1949, she fell afoul of the party for departing from the Moscow line, and thereupon turned 180°. She was a frequent and damaging informer during the McCarthy Senate hearings, eventually grew so conservative that last year she ran (and lost) for U.S. Congressman...
...station along the highways these days looks like a miniature Las Vegas. Banners, billboards and other ballyhoo urge motorists to win big prizes by matching Dino Dollars, playing Tigerino, collecting Presidential Coins or joining in scores of other games. There is not a casino in the world with the gall to offer odds as long as those that are standard in service stations and supermarket "games of chance." The Federal Trade Commission, which two weeks ago concluded a two-year study of promotional lures, found that in one food-chain game that touted a 1 in 3 chance of winning...