Word: gratiot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...administrative assistant to the police commissioner, left his desk at headquarters and climbed to the roof for a look at Detroit. When he saw it, he wept. Beneath him, whole sections of the nation's fifth largest city lay in charred, smoking ruins. From Grand River Avenue to Gratiot Avenue six miles to the east, tongues of flame licked at the night sky, illuminating the angular skeletons of gutted homes, shops, supermarkets. Looters danced in the eerie shadows, stripping a store clean, then setting it to the torch...
...many women delegates were concerned, the strength they showed on the convention floor was just the beginning. Said an elated Daphne Gratiot of Woodstock, Vt.: "It is only a taste of things to come." She may be right. Further bolstering the women's position was passage by the convention Rules Committee of a measure requiring that future conventions, the Democratic National Committee, state Democratic committees-in fact, all Democratic Party bodies-be composed equally of men and women. The consequence: women have good reason to expect that they will soon be moving into positions of power in the party...
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