Word: lowe
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McCarthy is sardonic, still of hand, low or octane, occasionally obscure, nearly always cucumber-cool. He is so relaxed that when he reached one stop in Los Angeles a little early, he gave his talk immediately and was on his way out when most of his listeners were coming in. Humphrey is the old-school orator: expansive, ringing, grand and open in gesticulation. It is ironic that Kennedy, despite his scorn for Humphrey's "politics of joy," frequently generates a carnival atmosphere that approaches frenzy...
...Ralph Abernathy plead his poor people's cause, a plea which the delegates answered with a recommendation that their church donate $100,000 to the march on Washington. They agreed, moreover, to invest 30% of the church's unrestricted funds in housing and business enterprises in low-interest, high-risk areas. In a dramatic effort to invest church services with contemporary relevance, a new communion litany, which may become part of the permanent ritual, was written for the meeting. It was a litany of some relevance to citizens of any religion-or none-in which communicants publicly confessed...
...Forgive.us for cheering legislators who promise low taxes, but deny homes and schools and health to those in need...
Clean Beach. In its first 18 months, the ambitious plan will spend a total of $177 million to create 11,000 jobs and build 4,600 much-needed low-cost housing units. It is to revive Cleveland's long-stalled urban-renewal program (the nation's largest, with 6,060 acres involved and nothing completed), and set up expanded health and welfare facilities. So enthusiastic are residents about its prospects that 450,000 people have contributed-schoolchildren, factory workers, businessmen and a retired English professor who donated $1,000,000 worth of stocks. Together they oversubscribed...
GRADES. The relationship between course grades in most professional schools and occupational success is in fact very low, often approaching zero...