Word: rented
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Nevertheless, the French colonial regime continued to lose group to the revolutionary Viet Minh from 1946 to 1954. Once more, a popular revolution, based on peasant discontent, broke out. Production and agriculture had already fallen by half; the peasants liberated by the Viet Minh from the burden of rent and excessive taxes were not prepared politically or economically to accept their return...
Negroes were stunned last fall when Californians voted 2 to 1 for "Proposition 14" - a constitutional amendment voiding state laws against housing discrimination. The amendment affirms the right of any property owner "to decline to sell, lease or rent such property to such person or persons as he, in his absolute discretion, chooses." Arguing that the amendment amounts to approval of racial discrimination, N.A.A.C.P. lawyers are trying to get it declared unconstitutional. Last week they got their first court decision-and lost...
...suit was filed in Sacramento against Crawford Miller, an insurance investigator and landlord who seeks to evict Clifton Hill and his family from their $86-a-month apartment solely because he wants "to rent said premises to members of the Caucasian race." Defendant Miller says the new amendment gives him that right. Plaintiff Hill emphatically disagrees, citing the equal-protection clause of the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment...
Many students would want to pick up skiing this year and are thinking of buying equipment or just renting it for weekends. If you are serious about the whole thing, it pays to have your own equipment, but if you only want to go once or twice in the coming two seasons, you should rent...
Gregory thinks that Negroes in general have become so popular "that there aren't enough of us to go around." Some day soon, he says in his routine, "I expect to see a Hertz Rent-a-Negro." White employers, if they would hire Negroes at all, used to go for light-complexioned ones, he observes. "Now they want the blackest faces they can find, and they put them all up in the front of the office." Only the weather bureau, in his view, is behind the times. Gregory threatens to picket the place unless the next hurricane is named...