Word: periodic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...often required to pass aptitude tests that include wholly irrelevant questions. Plumbing apprentices, for example, get problems in algebra and trigonometry. On top of that, most apprentices must start work at half of a journeyman's pay and stay in training for three to five years, a period that many experts consider at least twice as long as necessary. Union officials contend that the system is vital to maintain standards of workmanship. "The apprenticeship program is so rigged that it would take a college-level black to get in," .says Assistant Labor Secretary Arthur Fletcher. "Why should a Negro...
Today the date is marked by celebrations to honor those men who dared to take a stand against the Nazis. The Germans look to it as a small bright light in a black past. Even that light is somewhat dim, however, for as any student of the period knows the attempt on the life of Hitler was motivated by the fact that he was losing the war, not by moral opposition...
...Crimson harriers enjoyed a tremendously successful training period at their Grotonwood. Mass., hideout, but they returned to Cambridge a little more disorganized than they have been in recent seasons...
Finch also predicted that the end of the Vietnam war would be followed by a period of "neo-isolationism" in which the U. S. would try to solve "these terrible problems" at home...
These counties had received a large influx of protestant settlers in the 17th century. These settlers were not unlike the American colonists of the same period and the attitude of the Ulster settlers towards the native Irish was much like the attitude of Americans towards Indians. The natives were a nuisance and were subhuman, furthermore they were Catholic...