Word: pruitt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...putting flesh on the bones of their Afro-American heritage. "We all knew what slavery was, by hearsay and by family tradition," noted Boston Journalist Robert Jordan. "But this put all those feelings in living color where you've got to believe them." Said Little Rock Teacher Charles Pruitt: "The black kids resent what has happened and say, 'They couldn't do it to me like that,' but the white kids say, 'But look, I'm not like that...
...been shortened, many burn victims remain from 30 to 60 days and some are kept a year or more, not only because they are undergoing extensive skin grafts but because portions of the body may have to be entirely reconstructed. In fact, says Brooke's Colonel Basil A. Pruitt, the army's top burn expert, the plastic surgery in some cases is sheer artistry...
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...often, public housing projects turn out to be much like low-income dwellings run by private absentee land lords: poorly maintained by owner and tenant alike. So it was in St. Louis, where the 33-building, $40 million Pruitt-Igoe project, intended two decades ago to be a model for the nation, now stands abandoned and partially demolished. Embarrassed by the fiasco, St. Louis housing officials are trying something new: turning the management of projects over to the tenants themselves...
...territory. All that open space is no one's land, and so it goes to hell and is wasted. Meantime, back at the cluster, no one has anything worth a dime-no place for pets or horses or a garden, no fence, nothing but a fancy, outdoor Pruitt-Igoe...