Word: lows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Low-keyed. Thirty-eight Democrats voted against Haynsworth, but the margin of defeat was provided by the President's own party. Seventeen G.O.P. Senators-including the top three leaders-defected. To do so, they had subjected themselves to some of the toughest manhandling to come from the White House in years. Nixon confined himself to low-keyed sales pitches, but Attorney General John Mitchell and White House Aides Bryce Harlow, Harry Dent and Clark Mollenhoff adopted hard-knuckle tactics. For weeks, the struggle was a bizarre mixture of moral controversy, party loyalty, political animosity and crude pressure, all played...
Before the massacre, My Lai was a poor hamlet in Quang Ngai province, whose low, marshy coastal plains had been-and still are-a base for the Viet Cong 48th Battalion. My Lai was a "fortified" hamlet whose bricked-up houses served as bunkers for marauding V.C. cadres, and was known to the G.I.s in the area as "Pinkville...
...painters' helpers seems to fall into a commoner category: a blundering attempt at what is nowadays known as "affirmative action"-hiring blacks and other "disadvantaged" workers. Blundering, because Harvard is now facing a situation which has happened in private industry often enough: hire blacks. put them into low-level work slots. give them little attention. look at them a year later. and you find that few, or none, have advanced...
...that Harvard originally started the "helper-3rd class" category which was not provided in the union contract signed two years ago. "Harvard couldn't even get a nibble from journeymen painters, even after an advertisement in a Boston newspaper." said Hodston recently. "Wages were the reason. They pay such low wages...
...live in poor housing. The reason that Harvard can get experienced black painters at a lower wage (besides the fact that helpers are lied to about promotions) is that these men can't find jobs elsewhere because of discrimination. To justify profiting from skilled black painters hired for the low helpers' wage. Harvard claims that it can't find "qualified" black workers. This is false. It builds the idea-a racist idea-that black people are inferior, that black people are less qualified...