Word: power
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Feather is also moving to trim the power of the miners, steelworkers and other old-industry unions. He wants to cut strikes and industrial unrest by 40% over the next year, but the government, businessmen and the public appear doubtful that he can succeed. If Feather fails, Wilson could be hurt. The latest Gallup polls show that only 25% of the electorate think that the Labor Party can halt the stoppages; 31% think that the Conservatives would do a better...
...ensured the support of the many San Marinese who had grown relatively prosperous-and thus relatively conservative -on American soil.* Three years ago, however, a Communist coalition managed to repeal the law. With the opposition stripped of its U.S. mail-order vote, the Communists were hopeful of regaining the power they had enjoyed for twelve years after World...
...trustees were anything but ambiguous, though, about how they believe Cornell must respond to campus disorders from now on. "The protection and preservation of order has now become of paramount importance to the university because of the emergence of that minority on campus who seek to replace reason with power," said the report. Should there ever be a repetition of last spring's troubles, they warned, "the university must not negotiate under duress. There must be no amnesty for infractions of the student conduct code...
...Kingdom and the Power...
Gaping Wounds. "When men of privilege abuse their power and refuse justice," Ford told them, "sooner or later violent upheaval is bound to come. If we do not seek to heal the gaping, rubbed-raw wounds of racial strife, then we shall deserve 'the fire next time.' It is to the shame of the Christian church that we have been so slow to face the demands of the Gospel in the racial revolution. What kind of Gospel are we preaching when a church sends missionaries to convert Africans, but suggests to the Afro-American that...