Word: originated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jewish boy. (In one ward of his Twelfth District, McCormack is still known as "Rabbi John.") He has consistently defended all minorities, and once, in a battle in the House with Mississippi's Racist John Rankin, he poured forth his feelings: "A man's racial origin means nothing to me, a person's name means nothing to me. A person's religion I respect. But what does mean everything to me is a person's mind. And when I meet a person with a bigoted mind, I am meeting a person I do not like...
...travel, impatience with the failures of U.S. society, and ill-concealed dislike of Embassy Row cocktail parties. In one of his books, Ed Reischauer says: "Diplomatic relations have grown out of the exchange of personal representatives between kings, and they still preserve some of the aristocratic aura of their origin. But diplomatic relations today are not really between individual rulers but between whole peoples of entire nations...
...Gaulle is committed to release from prison Mohammed ben Bella and four other F.L.N. Cabinet members who were captured in 1956 when the pilot of their plane was tricked into landing on French territory. Once freed, the F.L.N. ministers will be returned by the French to their point of origin: Morocco, Benkhedda evidently wants to be on hand to welcome his old comrades...
...Assembly, Nyerere believes that multiracialism is a sound policy for the emerging African states, has kept as his closest advisers former Governor Sir Richard Turnbull, who is now Governor General, and Finance Minister Sir Ernest Vasey. "Both the color of a man's skin and his country of origin," says Nyerere, "are irrelevant to his rights and duties as a citizen...
...Massachusetts Fair Employment Practice Act forbids employers to inquire into the race, religion, national origin, or creed of a prospective employee. The Fair Educational Practice provisions which parallel the act make similar requirements of educational institutions in the state. Thus high school students applying for admission to Harvard College are requested to mention nothing which would indicate their racial or religious background. And they are pointedly not asked to submit photographs of themselves. The democratic principle underlying the Massachusetts law needs no introduction to members of Phillips Brooks House, which has distinguished itself by fighting against discrimination in housing...