Word: plaint
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blacks or any group-suggests a return to past discrimination even as it promises new democracy. Understandably, the outcry from Jewish intellectuals has been loud, for some of them worry about a future in which jobs are taken away and given to others under a quota system. This plaint is applicable to more than Jews, for tomorrow may always bring new demands. Already blacks feel threatened in their competition for favored job treatment by the rise of the Women's Liberation Movement...
Even those still separated from their nearest neighbor by hectares of sage and pine are beginning to band together under the big skies to practice thinking small and muster the strength to resist or redirect the inevitable population growth. The old cowboys' plaint, "Don't fence me in," is fast giving way to the environmentalists' plea, "Please fence them out." Conservation groups fantasy building one-way overpasses straight through to Canada to keep Californians out of Oregon, or constructing an adobe wall around New Mexico to keep the Texans from straying in, and worse, staying...
...anything. I don't trust nobody." The future? "If things don't shape up, my children won't live for it. Society will kill them and put them in bondage too, and they won't be able to move either." Summing up her plaint, Betty Jackson says: "I just need some place to survive. I'm being crazied up in this Establishment...
...serious, stern, responsible deed, To help an unfortunate soul in need, And your one reward, when you quiet his plaint, Is to feel like an opulent, careworn saint...
...political career. Reagan was cracking the quip again when he announced that he would lead a delegation pledged to President Nixon at next year's Republican Convention-and thus forgo for the time being any presidential ambitions of his own. Of New York Mayor John Lindsay's plaint that his is the second toughest job in the world, Reagan said that it probably was-"the way he does it." George McGovern, Reagan said, "is testing the water, probably to see if Teddy can walk on it." The Democrats, Reagan concluded, "want to turn the country around: they...