Word: meres
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...educational system has proven to be erroneous and ridiculous. Most of our universities built in colonial days were designed to train a civil service but not educate men that would come to grips with the African problem. Thus colonial institutions became a means of ex-exploitation, and religion a mere imploration of words...
...bear hugs. There were warm reunions with Bob Byrd, who beat him out for the post of majority leader only last January; Ted Kennedy, who fought him on behalf of his brothers; Strom Thurmond, who led segregationists in a protest at the 1948 Democratic Convention after upstart Humphrey, a mere 37 and mayor of Minneapolis, issued a clarion call for civil rights. "The greatest gift of life is friendship," Humphrey declared, "and I have received...
...every American schoolchild knows, the highest mountain in North America is Alaska's Mount McKinley (elevation: 20,320 ft., a mere 8,708 ft. lower than the Himalayas' Mount Everest). But centuries before paleface cartographers gave the peak that name, Alaskan Indians, Aleuts and Eskimos called it by another: Denali, or "the Great One" in the Athabascan Indian dialect. Now native Alaskans are lobbying hard to restore the original Indian name. The state legislature has adopted a resolution to rechristen the mountain Denali, and both Governor Jay Hammond and Senator Mike Gravel are campaigning to persuade...
...have serious hearing handicaps by age four. The death rate for tuberculosis is four times as high among Indians as among non-Indians. ...On the Rosebud Reservation (South Dakota), Indians are 40 times more likely than the general population to contract strep throat and scarlet fever." Overall, the mere chance of maturing for Native Americans is small...
...moment, Panama does not have the skilled manpower to take over the canal. But it has 23 years to train pilots, technicians and mechanics-a sufficient amount of time, one would think, since it takes a mere twelve years to train a brain surgeon. Panama has also said it would hire other nationals if there are not enough native citizens...