Word: hearded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even in the final moments, when he had run as long and as far as he could, the fugitive still did not quit. As he heard them coming, crashing through the undergrowth, he lay on the ground and covered himself with leaves. Unerringly, a young bloodhound named Sandy sniffed him out. "James, are you all right?" asked Guard Sammy Joe Chapman. There was a pause. "I'm all right," replied James Earl...
...power sharing," too, a minority has recognized that change must come. But even the most progressive whites do not look for one-man, one-vote reform, under which the whites would obviously be outvoted. They are more or less desperately searching for other devices. One of the most frequently heard catch phrases has to do with moving away from the "Westminster system" of parliamentary representation toward some form of presidential or federal system. One notion is to qualify black suffrage on the basis of education or property. Another is to have the several "communities"-whites, blacks, coloreds (people of mixed...
...With a few judicious details as props, Gavin creates palpable illusions of scenes 150 years old. Schlumberger and a companion stalk the New York waterfront at night: "Now and then they entered the nimbus of a gas lamp hovering just over their heads like a phosphorescing sea creature. Schlumberger heard the sinister hiss behind the glass. One pace beyond the lamp his shadow was squeezing from under his heel squat as a dwarf, and four strides later it was a lanky giant being sucked headfirst into the dark...
...called to account, urban systems still manage to fend off basic reform. They will continue to do so until voters decide otherwise. For that millennium to occur, there need to be more Jeremiahs like Newfield willing to howl their grim, invaluable message over and over again. It cannot be heard by too many citizens, or heeded by too many cities...
...have mounted a coordinated attack on the activities of the Western-based news organizations that transmit most of the world's news. The stated aim of this "developmental journalism" campaign is to make information better serve the developing countries' plans for economic growth and, as one oft-heard slogan has it, "decolonialize the news." "The West still regards the Afro-Asian countries as inferior," says Indian Publisher Asoke Sarkar. "You do not understand...