Word: redressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...schools remain racially unbalanced. At least 25 schools have enrollments that are less than 20% white. A new state law (TIME, Aug 27) requires schools to correct imbalance or forfeit state funds; Boston has until October to complete a pupil census, and then must submit plans to redress the balance. And U.S. Commissioner of Education Francis Keppel has begun an investigation to see if Boston's schools can continue to qualify for $2,000,000 in federal...
...laws are , he explained, the Negro will still have to face the other problems of poverty and will have to resort to demonstrations for redress of grievances...
Lately, such attacks on tyrannical officials have become commonplace in the Russian press. Thousands of letters of complaint pour in daily to the editorial offices of Pravda, Izvestia and other papers. If a letter is published-and many are-the writer is assured some kind of redress: an official mentioned in a newspaper complaint is required to answer it. Sometimes the private gripes blossom into a full-fledged editorial discussion of substantive issues: economics, or crime, or agriculture, or juvenile delinquency. It all adds up to impressive evidence that some of the shackles have been removed from the Soviet press...
Then Zellner told us that he was tired. Just like a SNCC worker who spoke at Medgar Ever's funeral, he was tired of memorial services, and tears, and murder with no form of redress. I looked around and realized that we were all tired. Tired of hearing about the inaction of the FBI, tired of leaving meetings like this one, sick and tired of seeing the American Dream as a nightmare...
...lives and property. Thus, in 1801, marines landed in Tripoli to free the crew of a seized U.S. ship. In 1849, a U.S. naval force debarked in Turkey to gain the release of an imprisoned American. In 1851, U.S. troops intervened on Johanna Island, off East Africa, to exact redress for the imprisonment of an American whaling captain...