Word: men
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Anglos was sharply brought home to him. He had arrived in jacket and tie, and an organizer quickly informed him that it would be better to leave the jacket and tie home. "You have to realize," said the man, "that a lot of these people have been exploited by men wearing jackets and ties." "From then on, I wore Levi's," says Anson...
...divided on some questions. His attention is dominated by the twin crises of the war in Viet Nam and inflation at home. His determination not to pressure legislators has resulted in a lack of clear communication with Congress even on routine matters. Out of what some of his own men regard as an excessive desire to avoid party and factional conflict, the President frequently seems to end up practicing the politics of zigzag...
...Churchill observed, the action "would, according to all the standards of history, have justified the German government in declaring war." President Truman later dispatched troops to Korea without congressional approval, John Kennedy had his Bay of Pigs, and Lyndon Johnson saw no need to ask Congress before sending fighting men to the Dominican Republic...
...between the labor and civil rights movements and represented a much needed victory for the advocates of activist nonviolence. The union's objective is to organize the nation's 1,500,000 nonprofessional hospital workers, many of whom are black. As the settlement was being announced, union men were on their way to Baltimore to begin working with the 1,200 semiskilled workers at the Johns Hopkins Hospital...
...when well-recognized issues are at stake. The grape strike seems to meet none of these criteria. Americans could easily live without the table grape if they had to, and even that minor sacrifice has been unnecessary. The dispute has been relatively free of violence. Neither great numbers of men nor billions of dollars are involved. The welfare of agricultural workers has rarely captured U.S. attention in the past, but the grape strike?la huelga?and the boycott accompanying it have clearly engaged a large part of the nation...