Word: mothered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year-old ghetto boy admitted to the hospital where I worked for treatment of rheumatic fever. We became aware that Jimmy was a disturbed youngster, and we did some psychological testing. Jimmy, in tests that are admittedly culture-bound, tested out at an IQ of 125. His mother was as you've described the poverty-stricken-dull and depressed. We all looked at Jimmy in helpless despair. We knew that in all likelihood, he would either become depressed and his IQ would gradually go down to a dull level, or he would use his brains for crime or some...
...only has he listened to the voices of the poor; he has put them in positions of power. The former education director of the N.A.A.C.P., Paul Parks-who also happens to be an able civil engineer -was put in charge of the Model Cities program; a welfare mother was named to the public-welfare board, whose highhandedness she had protested in a raucous sit-in. As a result of White's concern for Negro neighborhoods, his critics now call him "Mayor Black...
...littlest Ford Continental, Alessandro Ford Uzielli, 18 months, woggled into international view for the first time at Paris' Orly Airport in the velvety clutches of Mother Anne Ford Uzielli, 25, and Aunt Charlotte Ford Niarchos, 27. Tiny Alex roundly ignored eager photographers, but perked up later at Grandma's house: Mme. Sybil Billotte's 14-room estate in suburban Senlis. The tyke and his doting entourage (including nanny, two bodyguards and chauffeur) then motored to Brussels, where he and Auntie Charlotte hopped a plane to New York, the last leg of his jet-set journey...
...follows deals obliquely with one of the great sources of frustration for social activists: How can you support and work for people you do not--even if you want to--genuinely know? On what terms can a Harvard intellectual learn to know a sharecropper in Mississippi, or a Roxbury mother on welfare...
...foot blond was wailing at my feet. Having lost her mother amongst the myriad legs which stood like a forest around her, she given up in dispair, plumped down in the dust, her screams blending into the songs, her tears streaking through red mascara, raining like drops of blood on her legs...