Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first in her walk. Tall, her black hair close-cropped, she carries her lithe body with uncanny grace--an assurance that comes from years of hard labor. Naomi works in the kibbutz bee-hives. Clothed in stifling protective garments on searing Israeli afternoons, she sloshes rich, amber honey into pails. She is the only girl on the kibbutz who does it. It is work that many men cannot stand...
...money to live or pay tuition, for no one on the kibbutz owns personal property beyond the clothes on their back. Nor does she have the training to get a good job. The kibbutz has given her no marketable skill, and with Israel in a mild depression, unskilled labor is flooding the economy...
...been easy. Nehemiah was orthodox before he fled Hitler in 1935, and the orthodox scorned physical activity. The only place for a man, they believed, is in the study. Thus when he stepped off the gangplank onto the promised land, Nehemiah lacked even a rudimentary feel for physical labor...
Progressive Labor Petition...
Cambridge Vote on Vietnam was organized by three members of the Progressive Labor Party, a Marxist-Leninist group which sides with Peking in preferring revolution to co-existence. Its petition reflected the PL analysis: "We are opposed to the U.S. policy in Vietnam. The war in Vietnam is against the interests of American workers and students because it spends out men and our money to suppress the Vietnamese. The war serves only the interests of business. The U.S. should get out of Vietnam...