Word: poore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...love Kennedy," Vellucci said. Vellucci added he supports Kennedy because Kennedy backs the poor, wants to give medical attention to all Americans, and wants to control gas prices...
Marley is a Jamaican Rastafarian, a religious group that combines a kind of mystic spiritualism with left-wing politics. His songs reflect the emotions and attitudes of poor people in Jamaica. Some of his most popular songs include "You Belly Full, But We Hungry," "It Takes a Revolution," "Stand Up For Your Rights," and "Burnin' and Lootin...
...19th century composer John Howard Payne, it was Home Sweet Home. In today's America it is all too often an arena for shoving, pushing, punching, kicking, screaming, torture and death. Says Sociologist Murray A. Straus: "For any typical American citizen, rich or poor, the most dangerous place is home-from slaps to murder." Straus reckons that as many as 8 million Americans are assaulted each year by members of their own families...
...expected, the incidence of violence is highest among the urban poor (many of them minorities), blue-collar workers, people under 30 or without religious affiliation, families with a husband who is jobless and those with four to six children. But the study also showed that violence occurs among affluent families as well. Indeed, the wife of a university president (not New Hampshire) once quietly called Straus to ask what she could do about her husband, who was beating her; Straus suggested marriage counseling...
...That poor mutt on the RCA label. For half a century he has been sitting by the victrola, one ear cocked to the horn, checking out the sounds with the same expression on his earnest face, as if he expected the machine to throw him a bone. He has weathered considerable changes: shellac to plastic; hand cranks to separate components; 78 to 45 to 33; mono to stereo and, most recently, a skirmish with quad. There is a revolutionary change coming up, however, that bids fair to wag his tail and pin his floppy ears back...