Word: pamphleteered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...citing the August 1964 joint resolution of Congress passed unanimously in the House and 88 to 2 in the Senate after the Gulf of Tonkin incident. Rusk noted that Gore had a copy of the resolution and asked to borrow it. "Oh, sure," said Gore, pitching a 233-page pamphlet from a high rostrum to the well where Rusk sat, thirty feet away. Gore's aim was off, but when an aide retrieved the pamphlet and handed it to Rusk, the Secretary found the words he was looking for. The resolution empowers the President, he noted, "to prevent further...
Moynihan is the author of the recently published pamphlet, The Negro Family, a factual study of the "structural distortions in the life of the Negro American...
...pamphlet describes and gives statistics on such problems as dissolved Negro marriages, illegitimate Negro births, matriarchy in Negro families, delinquency and crime, and alienation. It came under attack at a White House conference on civil rights this full because some civil rights leaders interpreted it as being anti Negro...
...custodian at Wakefield's St. John's Church discovered another pamphlet in the church parking lot later in the morning. This one read "Thousands of Americans are being killed while LBJ vacations." There was no mention of the Harvard organization but it was written by the same hand and mimeographed on the same machine as the other pamphlets...
Nevertheless, as tangible evidence of the Klan's retaliatory zeal, the committee displayed a White Knights of Mississippi pamphlet that catalogues forms of harassment to be used on suspected foes. Among other tactics, it recommends pouring sugar into gasoline tanks, dumping snakes, dead rats or decapitated chickens into mailboxes. To "obscure the deadly seriousness of our work," the circular suggested, the Knights should refer to such ploys as "Halloween pranks"-enough, in Klan verbiage, to make any night Dark Day in Weird Week of Month Sorrowful...