Search Details

Word: poorest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...some ways it is far behind. The poorest region of the country, the "new, new South" is in frantic pursuit of the middle-class affluence it sees all around. At a time when America is finally beginning to question the values of modern industry and technology, the South is plunging blindly into industrialization, suffering all the exploitation that has occurred elsewhere. The brutalities of the textile mills are a good example: attracted to the South by the cheap labor and tax inducements of local governments, they have resisted unionization and have been a continually reactionary force...

Author: By William B. Hamilton, | Title: Books The South and the Nation | 4/30/1970 | See Source »

...seems that the National Lampoon staff culled the poorest of secondary school bathroom graffiti to paste together their April issue. Nevertheless, a few rays of brilliance do shine through. In Stephen Kaplan's "White House Heartbreak." which appears in comic-book form, David Eisenhower begs his wife Julie to sleep with him. Julie is reluctant: "But what about my reputation? The newspapers... And Daddy's career? What if... What if I had a BABY!?" David comforts his bride, and while they embrace he assures her "Don't worry honey, I take those pills every...

Author: By Samuel Z. Goldhaber, | Title: From the Newssland Poons | 4/7/1970 | See Source »

...about niggers being human beings- we're human beings too. We're just as much a minority here as the niggers nationwide. But what do you do when you're whipped at the polls? You join 'em." Greene is one of the nation's poorest counties. Esmal Wilson, 53, a white auto mechanic, contends gloomily: "Hell, nobody's going to do business with niggers. They couldn't get any more industry in here than that dog over yonder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Journey Through Two Americas | 4/6/1970 | See Source »

...group-called Freedom Farms Co-Op-is trying to buy a 640-acretract of land in Mississippi's Sunflower County. On the land-which is now owned by a white planter-the group wants to set up a farmers' cooperative for the blacks of one of the nation's poorest regions...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Black Southern Farmers Need Money To Buy Land in Mississippi for Co-Op | 3/10/1970 | See Source »

Fighting for the first time since 1961, when France withdrew from Algeria, units of the legion's crack 1st Infantry and 2nd Parachute regiments have been in Chad since last April. The huge, landlocked former French colony is one of the world's poorest countries, with 3,500,000 people and a yearly per-capita income of $40. For more than five years, northern Arabs have been ravaging cotton fields and raiding government offices in the south in an effort to topple the corrupt but pro-French regime in Fort-Lamy. Paris is so disturbed by the rebel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chad: The Last Beau Geste | 2/16/1970 | See Source »

Previous | 237 | 238 | 239 | 240 | 241 | 242 | 243 | 244 | 245 | 246 | 247 | 248 | 249 | 250 | 251 | 252 | 253 | 254 | 255 | 256 | 257 | Next