Word: got
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...White House withheld the nomination from the Senate, Finch made it clear that he admired his candidate's plan to shake up American medicine so that it would better serve the poor. "I'm going to hang in there," he told Knowles. "I've got nobody else. I want you." "I'm not going to back down," Knowles said. "That's what they want me to do." One Senate head count showed that no more than 25 members opposed the nomination; another estimate put the opposition at ten. Finch assured Nixon that his appointee...
...however, personifies the Chicanos' bleak past, restless present and possible future in quite the manner of Cesar Chavez. He was the unshod, unlettered child of migrant workers. He attended dozens of schools but never got to the eighth grade. He was a street-corner tough who now claims as his models Emiliano Zapata, Gandhi, Nehru and Martin Luther King. He tells his people: "We make a solemn promise: to enjoy our rightful part of the riches of this land, to throw off the yoke of being considered as agricultural implements or slaves. We are free men and we demand justice...
...attention through much of the year. Since the appearance of the fruit affects its value?unlike the case of wine grapes?the bunches must be carefully picked by hand. Because of their vulnerability, Chavez picked the table-grape growers as his first target. In 1966, after a strike, he got his first contract when Schenley Industries capitulated because it had a nationally known name at stake. Later that year he won the right to represent workers at the mammoth Di Giorgio ranch in an election monitored by the American Arbitration Association. Both Di Giorgio and Schenley have since sold their...
...difference. We do not take the Ibos as our enemies; they are our brothers. As far as I am concerned, I'm fighting a war to keep the country one and united. I therefore cannot afford to be callous in the way I prosecute this war. I have got to think of the problems of reconstruction, reconciliation and winning the heart, if we are to have a happy country in the end. It would be quite an easy thing to say, "All right, we will call them enemies, and we will fight them as enemies." But then, honestly...
...wasn't that he disliked Monte Carlo. Far from it. But he had been there before and knew the pitfalls. "When I was 18," Choreographer George Balanchine. 65, told his charges, "I came here and got sick. Now please don't eat awful stuff like octopus. And don't charge into the water. In fact, don't do anything." Anything, that is, except dance. Prince Rainier and Princess Grace had invited Balanchine's New York City Ballet to Monaco for a week-long festival commemorating the 40th anniversary of the death of Sergei Diaghilev, whose...