Word: gathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...counter productive it is often superficial in its practical effects. The Human Rights Commission reported late last year that after ten years of busing to achieve integration, James Madison High School in Brooklyn remains internally segregated. Black and white students don't eat, play, talk, study or gather together. Students in Berkeley, California, testified before a Senate committee in 1971 that there was minimal interracial contact after three years of cross-town busing. One high school's student body president reported whites would not attend school dances or eat lunch with blacks. He said that the only time the races...
...Tens of thousands turn out for a Manhattan rally to show "solidarity with Soviet Jews." In Pittsburgh, Greek Americans and their supporters gather to protest U.S. policy toward Cyprus...
...night before the evacuation it was pretty clear that the next day would be it. The American embassy spread word to newsmen who would go to gather at the Phnom Hotel, Phnom-Penh's journalistic watering hole, at 7 a.m. The night was relatively calm. No Cambodians could have guessed that the U.S. was about to abandon them...
...this, Anna is the settlement's work horse: she identifies as much with the farm's animals as with its people. She does the work of a "horse, a man, and a woman;" even the horse Blakken is shown more consideration. Anna goes out during blizzards to gather moss for feed, markets the farm's produce, and generally takes care of her diffident owners. Not until she and the others at Haugsetvolden reach old age is there much of a tone of tenderness between them...
Making Enemies. Pollster Mervin Field recently found that 86% of Californians expect that Brown will do either a good or at least a fair job in office. Brown is attempting to forge a new constituency that will cut across traditional liberal-conservative lines and gather support from both ends of the political spectrum. He aims to attract people who are discontented with the established institutions of business, labor and government, and who are moved by his calls for a return to individual initiative...