Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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True, a few families have had a minimum amount of power. Buster Bray has kept the Dirty Shame alight with electricity generated by a diesel Caterpillar in a shed behind the saloon. But "the Monster," as he calls it, has been running night and day for three years. It costs $26 a day, and, when it coughs at night, it wakes up folks for miles around. Bray is waiting impatiently for the rural cooperative to string its power-line to his part of the valley...
Torjus "Gunnysack" Johnson, 66, was not so sure he wanted electricity. Gunnysack and his wife, Mamie, subsist on social security money, and they did not know if they could afford the $10-a-month minimum charge for electricity. Besides, says Mamie Johnson, 79, "I'd rather have spent the money for a game license. I do some fishing, but I'd like to get me a deer this fall, and a bear. I'd sure like to get the juice from a fat bear. Makes a fine oil for salad." Nevertheless, the Johnsons have signed...
Perdew and three other workers for the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee, Zev Aelony, Don Harris, and Ralph Allen are being held without bail for inciting to insurrection, a charge carrying a maximum penalty of death and a minimum of five years' imprisonment. The fifth SNCC worker, Thomas McDaniel, is charged with unlawful assembly and assaulting an officer...
Watson met with representatives of the four groups yesterday. Although he did not endorse any specific proposal, he said he "would have no objection, to destroying membership lists of political clubs after they are out of date." The groups hope for this as a minimum change...
...grounds of race, color, religion, or ideological convictions). It was pointed out to the Council that any organization or group has to exclude some people; at least it has to exclude those who do not at all share its aims, or those who are incapable of meeting the minimum requirements. Discrimination per se, that is, without pejorative connotations, is neither legally nor morally reprehensible. We therefore requested the Council to clarify their contention that we did not deserve recognition on the ground that we were a discriminatory group. We want ed to know on what ground we were deemed...