Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...real hope of keeping the governorship. But Shapiro seems determined to try. Although his inaugural was as modest as the man, Shapiro's first week in office reflected a quiet but forceful style developed during a 35-year political career. He drew up an emergency program for tornado relief, stopped all construction of state buildings to fight an estimated $170,500,000 revenue shortage, helped launch a campaign to fight crime, poverty and urban blight, and fashioned such cordial ties with the state senate that its Republican majority leader praised Shapiro's "practical, realistic way of handling things...
...generation, condition through which particular groups passed as they adjusted to the economic and cultural requirements of American capitalism." During the Depression, virtually an entire nation felt the pangs of penury. Even during good times, as a 1948 Gallup poll, which classified 50% of Americans as "poor or on relief," indicated, plenty of people were poor. Today's self-perpetuating pauperdom cannot be rationalized...
...paradoxes or ironies found suitable or useful for a given occasion, and reject those lacking such utility. In this respect, therefore, the Black Experience is, I daresay, little more than an offshoot of the Human Experience--no better and no worse. Perhaps I can put this point in sharper relief by reference to other features of the slave trade to the Western Hemisphere that seldom appear in the black nationalist view of this horrofying historical event. To those who take the historiography of the slave trade seriously, it is commonplace that leading and entrepreneurial groups in Negro African societies were...
...bill," said Roosevelt, "but a tax-relief bill, not for the needy but the greedy. . ." Beyond that, he said, Congress had been sloppy in writing the bill, "using language which not even a dictionary or a thesaurus can make clear...
...standard after all: Civilized Woman Tames Frontier Man. The formula female (prettily played by Joan Hackett) has a formula little boy, and the threesome winsomely provide the formula scenes-the nursing-his-wounds idyl, the making-him-take-a-bath episode, the surrogate father bit. It is an immense relief when Donald Pleasence turns up as the maniac bad guy with an interest in rape and torture...