Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their weight on one hip. Thus, someone smoking opium was termed 'on the hip.' Years later American jazz musicians took up the word, applying it indiscriminately to anyone on drugs. In the present-day vernacular, it suggests looking beyond the camouflage of everyday reality, usually with the help of LSD and pot, but not always...
...face of the rioting, Congress -reflecting a widespread feeling of resentment and fear among white Americans-showed little inclination to waste time on civil rights bills. A $40 million program to help local communities exterminate rats-a serious problem in the slums-was pigeonholed in the House amid some hilarity (Iowa Republican H. R. Gross wanted to know if there would be a high commissioner for rats). At the same time, an antiriot act that would impose up to five years' imprisonment and a $10,000 fine on anyone who crosses state lines with the object of stirring...
...majority Negro population, a Negro mayor within a few years. (Some delegates to the black power conference did not want to wait that long, announced that they would seek a special election to recall Addonizio and elect a Negro.) The business community formed a committee to seek financial help for merchants whose shops were destroyed. Some 60 whites and Negroes established a Committee of Concern to examine problems of housing, voter registration, legal aid, welfare and education...
Many Hats. "All the things we've tried to help the cities with aren't working out very well, are they?" asks Daniel Patrick Moynihan, 40, a former Assistant Secretary of Labor and currently the most controversial of urban-affairs analysts. The question may sound over jaunty, but in fact it reflects the chief preoccupation of Pat Moynihan's life and the central domestic issue, one that is increasingly engaging the nation's intellectual community...
...cities have deteriorated considerably, but not irreparably. Money can help to salvage them. Chicago's Hauser figures that an additional $20 billion a year in federal funds over the next decade should do the job; Harvard Psychologist Thomas Pettigrew sets the sum at $25 billion a year; the Senate's Ribicoff subcommittee puts it at a neat $1 trillion. That kind of money, of course, even over a long period, does not come easily-nor is it all that easy to spend it wisely...