Word: lower
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...almost gone by the time we were over Viet Nam. The setting sun bathed the clouds in orange as the pilot, Major John Thigpen, 38, of Windsor, N.C., banked his B-52 into the bomb run. Below him, on the lower deck, the bombardier-navigator, Major Leonard Harris, 39, of Atlanta, hunched behind his radarscope, adjusting the scanner, like a television cameraman, until it gave him a moving, living map of partially cloud-obscured plantation country northwest of Saigon. Under that cover was the target, a suspected troop concentration. Everything had to go right the first time. The slightest navigational...
...Henry Dale, 93, top-ranking British physiologist, who shared a 1936 Nobel Prize in medicine with Austria's Otto Loewi for pioneering work on the function of the chemical acetylcholine in the body; in Cambridge, England. Body-produced acetylcholine, Sir Henry found, acts on the nervous system to lower blood pressure. He later discovered that histamine, another body chemical, may cause allergies and respiratory ailments, a find that led to antihistamines for colds and allergies...
...Black man, Charles Nesbitt, once said that "many Blacks have middle-class values but lower-class pocketbooks." Is this a reason why we can't live together? I tend to say yes, especially when part of this reason is White oriented. But even this isn't completely true, because some Black men have middle-class values and pocketbooks and still there is that gap between White and Black. Many White "Do Gooders" try to appease the Black man and fill this gap with what the old black schools of thought call "Tokenism," "Gradualism," and "See How Far You've Comeism...
...tall, slender man, with side-burns and a wide white hat, entered the discussion. Standing on the rim of the circle, he towered over most of the others. He was from New York, a member of the "Up Against the Wall, Motherfuckers," a rather militant SDS chapter on the lower cast side of New York City...
...Yorker began to relate tales from the Lower East Side, where mobile tactics had been used effectively. If the cops caught up with someone on a side street, he said, everyone nearby would converge screaming on that cop," and he'd let our boy go, let me tell...