Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would have to call Winthrop the dark house or the race," he said, "but I am heartened by the great esprit de corps of the men at Winthrop." When the full results of the winter sports are tallied, Mullin said, Winthrop would move up fast in the Straus point totals...
...democratic participation outside the system of political parties (which does not mean that one has no option but to work within the two existing parties) is bound to run into trouble. But unless the political parties of the U.S. are able to reform themselves, or more likely, unless a great new, genuinely democratic mass political party is established, America will prove unable to retain any degree of her democratic heritage...
...arrived. But when the final confrontation came we had a feeling of power over the situation. Unlike any other relations with my government, I could not see that it was reacting to the force of our group. The march changed nothing, perhaps hurt the cause, but one had a great sense of being able to influence. And even months afterwards the thought lingered in my blood that we had finally found an effective tactic.Election Day Demonstration. Towards a New Politics...
...aware that the lives of the great mass of men are lost to us: their loves and hopes, their very selves seem irretrievable. "When I think of antiquity," George Orwell says, "the detail that frightens me is that those hundreds of millions of slaves on whose backs civilization rested generation after generation have left behind them no record whatever. We do not even know their names...
...occasionally a book appears which chronicles for an illiterate people what they could not record themselves. With great pain and diligence and scholarship John Womack Jr. has wrested the story of the agrarian revolution captained by Emiliano Zapata from the reports of the literate and the educated, and has managed to give their history back to the people...