Word: leftness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...provide specific job criteria-along with an annual quota of 170,000-for countries outside the Western Hemisphere. The law gives first call to spouses and unmarried children of U.S. citizens. So many of them applied from certain countries, mainly Italy and the Philippines, that skilled workers were left on a 17-month waiting list. The new bill would relieve the pressure by lowering the percentage of relatives admitted, creating more openings for workers with special abilities...
...being mostly guys, shuffling about anxiously in this neo-Miami lobby, because a bunch of girls have taken over the men's room, complaining something about the lady's john having proved to be inadequate. Now, nothing is less conducive to upholding what shreds of male chauvinism are presently left us-not to mention one's own sense of propriety-than the need to take a good piss. So, unable to shuffle about any longer, a bunch of us joined the girls. Naturally they were all wearing women's lib buttons. And for a moment it did really seem that...
...ride dropped us off at the apartment sometime after one; we soon learned that the friend of a friend had returned to reclaim the bedroom, and the original friend had taken over the living room floor, and, sorry, but there really wasn't any room left. By that time our ride had also left, so off we set, on foot, to try to reach the house of yet another, friend that lived nearby...
Then this voice came out of the woods to our left. Over a bullhorn yet. You boys pick yore stuff up and start walkin down that rode and get outer this town...
...guests at the head table looked relieved, and one Faculty members softly sang an improvised goodbye song as they left...