Word: joblessness
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...unsavory motives are not the only disturbing elements of their plan. Already, it is creating difficult problems for the civil rights movement in the North. The spectacle of Urban League officials, politicians, and other groups, welcoming voluntarily-deported Southern Negroes while thousands of jobless, poorly-housed Northern Negroes look helplessly on, is distressing. Because these newcomers have accepted designation as transportable commodities in exchange for immediate material relief, they represent surrender to the segregationist viewpoint as well as economic competition for the Northern Negro...
Reid had finely polished the President's accents and gestures over three jobless months last fall, and once on stage, he brought down the house with his very first line; few had ever seen the President laugh so hard. His "serious mattahs" and "in my views" were unmistakably Kennedy, and his "we must move ahead" sounded like the call to federal service. Reid had his Kennedy deliver a playful jab or two at British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, who was also present: "He has covahed such a wide range of topics and made so many things cleah, including several...
Eleven years ago, Han, then 26, was just a disgruntled employee in a government department store in Pyongyang, capital of Red North Korea. He fled south with retreating United Nations troops, found himself in the teeming southern Korean coastal city of Pusan. Like thousands of other jobless refugees, Han opened a tiny store specializing in black-market supplies filched from U.S. military ware houses and PX stores, luxury goods smuggled from Japan. Soon Han muscled his way to the top of the pack, sported a smashed nose and livid knife scars as testimony to his ruthlessness. Not satisfied with being...
Carnegie is currently scouting all kinds of educational problems that other givers are loath to touch. It is deep in "continuing education" for everyone from frustrated housewives to jobless young Negroes. By financing research in programmed learning, it hopes to set standards in a wildly burgeoning field. And it enthusiastically supports Harvard Psychologist Jerome Bruner's Center for Cognitive Studies, a field that Gardner hopes will discover the secrets of the human learning process and give important insights into mental disorders...
Perennially jobless Dad, without a tanner for a smoke, rages at hunger and helplessness, beats up nagging Mam, or stares at the wall. When the back rent piles up, it comes time for a "moonlight flit"-the household goods piled on a barrow and trundled at midnight to a vacant tenement in another slum...