Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Curiously enough, I found the Northern forms of discrimination to be more frustrating to deal with, precisely because the concealment of discriminatory practices has been permitted. For example, when I spoke to the registrar of voters at the Hartford City Hall in order to obtain information for a badly needed voter registration campaign in Hartford's predominantly Negro districts, he stated flatly, "We don't keep figures on how many Negroes are registered." He then added, "I have a pretty good idea, but I'm not going to tell you. What are you bothering about them for, anyway? What race...
...bothersome ticket applications due a week and a half in advance, undergraduates will be able merely to present themselves, their identification card, and a signed athletic coupon at the Stadium. If a student wishes to introduce a young lady to the charming spectacle of Ivy football, he can obtain her ticket at the athletic department office any time the week of the game up until noon Saturday...
...before the hop across the Atlantic, Soblen stabbed himself in the abdomen with a steak knife while McShane was out of the compartment. Soblen was not attempting to commit suicide; he was trying to wound himself just enough to be hospitalized in Britain, thereby gaining time to try to obtain asylum...
Gulserian, presently manager of the Ambassador Hotel, will obtain new furniture, rugs, draperies, radios and televisions for every room. The entire hotel will be air-conditioned, and new kitchens will be built into the 67 residential apartments...
...Richard Austen Butler, 59, promoted from the Home Ministry to the newly created post of First Secretary of State, becoming, in effect, heir apparent to Macmillan. But the fact that Macmillan has named "Rab" Butler to the No. 2 Cabinet post does not mean necessarily that he will ever obtain No. 1 Since he is now even more closely tied to the Prime Minister and his policies. Butler's political fortunes largely depend on Macmillan's remaining more or less successfully in office. The vacant Home Ministry went to Henry Brooke, the abstemious former Paymaster General who once...