Word: groundful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since it was 25 feet to the ground, it looked as if Ruth and Jack would be stranded until morning. But Ruth, a Brooklyn girl who had been taught in Orthodox Jewish schools, was sure that a deeply religious issue was at stake. As she later explained in an unusual lawsuit, Ruth felt that her religion forbade her to spend the night alone with a man in a place that was inaccessible to a third person. After some thought, she slid from the chair and plummeted to the mountainside, suffering a fractured nose as well as neck and back injuries...
...play sometimes borders on masochism. "If you have a fair-housing march through a white neighborhood," he says, "the Negroes will have their heads torn off. If they go through a Jewish neighborhood, half the population will be joining in, and the other half will be falling on the ground flagellating themselves." Selecting the Jew as a scapegoat fills an important psychic need for the black. To bait the Jew is to claim superiority to the Jew?and to identify with a white community that still contains elements of antiSemitism...
...report's discussion of why improved treatment of Afro-American studies is so important to black students is well reasoned, but it covers little new ground. Using the traditional "negative-judgment" argument, the report says...
American steel companies, beset by rapidly rising costs for labor, have steadily lost ground to lower-priced foreign steel. The trend was accelerated last year, when the threat of a strike prompted consumers to hedge by ordering foreign steel. The splurge was all the more alarming to domestic producers because the Europeans and Japanese made especially strong gains in the flat-rolled products that are used in such key industries as autos and appliances...
...sleep there and munch on the doughnuts that his admiring girlfriends brought out to the smudge barn. But most smudgers face the night without the car and have to work on the tricky problem of how to work on the tricky problem of how to sleep on frozen ground without being burned alive by a smudgepot or killed by the cold air. There's no good solution. In the end, the smudgers grumble and form semicircles around a safe-looking pot, slowly turning themselves every few minutes so that each side of the body gets evenly baked...