Word: greater
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fags now it's different. They have never been anything but a problem. Yes, the fags, the fairies, the queens, the queers. Just stop and try to recall all the derogatory euphemisms we've invented in order to reject homosexuals. Lots of them, aren't there? Probably even greater than the number of euphemisms we've invented for the black. That's fairly good index of exactly how much our society fears homosexuals. Of course we feared the blacks, too, feared them even while we chucked 'em under their cork-blackened chins. But we feared them precisely because they were...
...ahead with the Smothers show in the fall season. The network will most likely yield to some of Tom my's complaints, especially since Tommy insists that he would rather quit than fight the censors. "I'm speaking up be cause there's something greater than my feelings involved here. CBS opened the door for us to do this kind of show, and now it looks like they're trying to close it. If they are renewing us, it's not because they want us, but because if they don't, we might...
...president of Northwest Industries and a Democrat, fears that if business were to receive tax subsidies but fail to root out social problems, it "could be set up as the goat of the next ten years." That is precisely the risk that businessmen run when working in Washington. The greater their voice in setting national policy, the more they will share the credit for U.S. triumphs-and the blame for failures...
...work stoppage lasted only 24 hours, but it demonstrated that union chiefs had support for their demands from the rank and file and that they probably could call the workers out again at any time - with even greater effect. This time, the mail piled up, garbage went uncollected and transportation by bus, train or plane came practically to a standstill. Power blackouts forced Parisians to dine in cafés by the flicker of candles or the glow of gas lamps. About 150,000 workers marched along rain-splattered streets to the Place de la Bastille. Students crashed the demonstration...
...Suggestions were made that the required pro-seminar be lengthened to one year, and that the second semester cover a greater variety of fields of interest, but no one suggested a "complete overhaul of the required first-year seminar." Discussion of the format for the second half of the course included proposals for greater student participation in determniing the direction of the course...