Word: reliefer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anybody to challenge them. No Negro leader accepted the challenge. "They have rejected their elders," said New York's Bayard Rustin, who had helped organize the triumphant 1963 March on Washington. "These elders are not people of achievement. Their fathers are out of work. Their mothers are on relief. And the established civil rights leadership is out of touch with them. We've done plenty to get the vote in the South and seats in lunchrooms, but we've had no program for these youngsters. They can't look to their fathers and they...
...husband is present in 20% of the homes of "nonwhite" married women between the ages of 20 and 44. More than half of all Negro children have lived in broken homes at least part of their lives by the time they are 18. Dependent-children relief checks go to more than half of all Negro children at some time during their childhood, v. 8% of white children. Disintegration of families, said the report, is the principal cause of low IQs, the swollen crime rate, narcotics addiction...
...northeast, rolled a three-mile-long column of South Vietnamese Rangers, marines, elite infantry and engineers, led by tanks and armored personnel carriers. They represented half of the country's strategic reserve. To old hands, the convoy seemed ominously reminiscent of the days before Dienbienphu, when just such relief columns led and manned by French troops had been gobbled up by the Viet Minh. Four miles from Due Co, the Communists struck hard, and the South Vietnamese column backed off at nightfall into a mile-square defense. Then from Pleiku came the alarming word that a brace...
...high fees or have no idea of how to find and hire lawyers they can trust. In the faceless welfare state, where local politicians no longer hand out cash and turkeys, the poor have mounting legal problems of their own: they must cope with Government bureaucracies over everything from relief to housing. Indeed, many experts feel that lack of legal services for the poor is a major threat to law and order. "Too often," Attorney General Katzenbach told the Miami convention, "the poor man sees the law as something which garnishees his salary, which repossesses his refrigerator, which evicts...
Sportswriters are talking about Koufax winning 30 games, which would make him the first pitcher to achieve that since Dizzy Dean won 30 for the St. Louis Cardinals in 1934. "I would have to win almost every start the rest of the way and pick up some in relief," says Koufax. With the Dodgers clinging to a thin lead and three teams in pursuit, Manager Walt Alston was thinking along exactly those lines...