Word: garment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When I made the cloud the garment thereof...
...TIME's hair-shirt makers offer another garment-of American Indian woof [Feb. 9]. But, rather than being "more than the conscience can bear . . . the demands of yet one more minority" beget a weariness from wailing. The Federal Government "spends only $500 million a year on aid to Indians...
American Jewish workers-be they painters, garment workers, or cigar makers-discovered their collective strength not by membership in equivalents of respectable Hillel Societies but by joining, and often leading, their non-Jewish brothers in militant labor organizations. The uprooted, first-generation Jewish immigrants aligned by choice and by necessity with other workers for "the right to live in dignity" (social, political and economic). In helping to build the American labor movement, they gained a foothold for themselves and their families in the new land. As liberal activists, socialists, and Communists, many of them, together with their children, continued...