Word: happen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leader of the rent strikes in Harlem during 1963: "We need 100 skilled black revolutionaries, dedicated men ready to die. We must make each a platoon captain, and each must get 100 more. New York can be changed by 50,-000 well-organized Negroes. They can determine what will happen to the city." Harlem Politician Percy Sutton: "If you tell the white man you're not going to do him in, you're not going to give us anything to fight the white man with...
...serious shortages in Viet Nam itself," said Stennis, in commenting on the report, "the continued drawing down of our assets and resources for Viet Nam could create an unacceptable and dangerous degradation in the Army's ability to meet other contingencies." Added Stennis: "To permit this to happen would be a perilous and risky gamble with national security." Specifically, the report finds problems in three general areas...
...wanton slaughter, before they return home just in time to ride off for Sunday services at the village church. There, naturally, the lost son hobbles in on a makeshift crutch. Shenandoah's final comment on the futility of war conveys the odd impression that it couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of people...
...having no excellent voices in the company; most of the voices are not passable, the lyrics rarely intelligible. One song is bad enough that the singing must have been intentionally off-key; this is wrong--it makes it impossible to understand the lyrics and this is not supposed to happen in Brecht. The songs are reputetdly the weakest part of this play, but I would refrain from judging them until a later production gives them a chance...
There is some uncertainty as to just what would happen if 34 states lodged formal petitions with Congress to hold a national constitution convention, because there has never been one and the Constitution is vague about details. But there is no doubt that the urge to amend is running strong...