Word: prove
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...classic pattern, revolution leads to hope, hope to frustration, frustration to fury. Thus it is that so many revolutions end by devouring their own children and destroying the goals for which they were fought. This, it was increasingly apparent last week, may prove to be the fate of the civil rights revolution in America. During a summer of insensate riots and black-power demagoguery, the Negro's legitimate struggle for full citizenship sadly lost momentum, while white reaction against Negro excesses continued to mount...
...Senate went beyond mere criticism; it took a number of steps that may actually roll back Negro gains. For one thing, it attached a rider to a HEW appropriations bill giving Southern hospitals the right-or alibi-to segregate patients if they judge that integrated rooms might prove "injurious" to their health. For another, it approved a $ 1,000,000 cut in HEW's civil rights enforcement budget. In addition, the Senate-approved Demonstration Cities bill was running into resistance from Congressmen who said they were getting complaints from constituents that "we don't need a Demonstration Cities...
...blood flow and temperature that may be produced by vas cular disorders. Capable of indicating temperature variations as small as .047° F, the liquid crystals he has been painted with were originally developed for testing mechanical stresses in deli cate instruments. But their quickly identifiable color changes may prove far more valuable for humans...
Mahoney's chances against Agnew are not especially good. Agnew -- the top elected official in Baltimore County -- is well-liked in this pivotal district. He has declared that he supports the Mathias open-housing bill, and the election in November could prove much more about the occupancy issue than the Democratic primary...
...deprived," is regarded by the nationalists as just another tool of the white man. In a conversation over why I, the White Student Liberal, was tutoring in Watts, a nationalist said, "Your job is not to tell those kids that they're as good as you are, but to prove that you're as good as they are." The young men of the ghetto don't want culture--just power. The American dream has no place for the black man, they feel, and they have no use for it if integrity is the price to be paid...