Word: newfound
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...overflow. On the other hand, those who man the draft boards wince at the thought that some will escape their arbitrary tentacles. Immediately, reports flowed from state and local selective service that all would be drafted to meet the quotas. These dictates quickly quieted those who thought they had newfound freedom. Many who had talked about leaving school and jobs reconsidered. The tide had been stemmed...
...mocking the black's own intolerable position, it bolstered his emerging self-awareness as he marched on Selma and Washington. At the same time, it pricked the white's guilt feelings by chastening him for years of brutal apathy, then soothed his conscience with the balm of newfound empathy. Says Black Comic Stu Gilliam: "Until we marched in the streets, no one was interested in what the black man had to say. That's why we didn't have talking acts per se-only singing and dancing. Then black comedians became a link of communications...
Themselves surprised by their newfound militancy, and having already risked their jobs and pensions by defying the federal antistrike laws, the postal workers were determined to justify the hazard by making the most of their action. "We're used to hard times," said one striker, and few of his fellow workers would disagree. Union meetings resounded with obscenities aimed at Rademacher, Richard Nixon and everyone else urging a truce. Gustave Johnson, president of the letter carriers' Manhattan Branch 36, where it all started, asked for compliance without really expecting it. "For the first time these men are standing ten feet...
...would you be in for over two decades and not even have a watch to show for it?" Coco asks. "Do I consider myself a success? Yes. Yes. I'm a huge, tremendous, enormous success. In fact, I may start a whole new Fat Man trend." For Coco, newfound success manifests itself in such niceties as a chauffeured limousine and the three-quarters of a million-dollar advance sale for Lovers. He also has a major role in Otto Preminger's Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon, plus an offer to do the movie version...