Word: hardships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Label Blackout. For the average man who has no special susceptibility, Furman believes, the customary diet can be altered without imposing hardship. The 40-40-20 ratio of calories from fats, carbohydrates and protein need not be modified, provided only that the nature of the fats is changed. Furman's prescription: twice as much polyunsaturated fat as saturated...
...feel the spirit in Israel, in large part because the country is smaller," Eisenstadt maintains. He also realizes the similarity between the immigrant nature of the original populations of the U.S. and Israel, but "hopefully, Israel will amalgamate more quickly, at less human cost." In terms of physical hardship, "there is less in Israel" than in the days of mass urban immigration into this country, and the fact that Israel is smaller and also largely of a "single identity" makes things easier...
Neither the economic nor the human success of the program is achieved without some hardship. Says Boston's NAB director, Joe Breiteneicher: "You've got to get whites already on the job to work alongside the black, the ex-con, the dropout, and we're often sending them all three in one." The new employees are sometimes met with hostility: a Negro in Boston was run down by a fork lift, another was felled by a dropped pallet...
Under my proposal, men would be selected for the Fair and Impartial Random System at age 19. Deferment would be restricted to cases of extreme hardship or conscientious objection. A young man would have but one year in his life when he was vulnerable to the draft--at 19. If men did not choose to enter the lottery pool at 19, they would be permitted to complete two years of college or technical or vocational training before submitting their names...
Free Land and Hardship. As Turner grasped it, American democracy was neither a perfected political boon granted to the Founding Fathers by a Protestant Providence nor an inheritance from European political theorists, but something else again. It was a unique, home-grown institution shaped on the American frontier. Free land, Turner argued, made Americans free and generous. Frontier hardship made them self-reliant and individualistic. Frontier challenges made them willing to cooperate democratically with one another. The absence of the trappings of privilege made them egalitarian...