Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are boycotts-Negro leaders prefer to call them "selective patronage movements"-against business firms that discriminate against Negroes in their personnel practices. There are rent strikes against slumlords who refuse to repair Negro tenements. There is the "sit-in" technique and its myriad variations: the "swim-in" to integrate pools, the "wade-in" at beaches, the "pray-in" at churches, the "wait...
Jody Locker and Mark Bramhall, as two servants, started the show off with a nearly disastrous thud; it took many minutes for the rest of the cast to repair the damage caused by their ineptitude...
...pancake house (for which it owns the franchise) and filling stations. Gulf Oil plans to invest $40 million in the Holiday Inns motel chain, and American Oil is installing automatic dry cleaners on its properties. Atlantic Refining is putting up garden-supply centers and shops that sell gifts and repair lawnmowers...
...shape, and to while away the days, they paint, write letters and read (translations of Sherwood Anderson, Rousseau, Hemingway). The Paraguayan ambassador gives them money for food and clothes; Juan picks up a little extra from a flower shop investment down the street; Luis has a small appliance-repair business. In the evenings their families come by for dinner; several nights a week their wives sleep...
...white cops. One was a patrolman suspended for 30 days for slugging a Negro with a blackjack. The other was his precinct captain, suspended later for allowing fellow cops to take up a collection to help the patrolman. Negro ministers responded with their own special church collections-to help repair the damage to the two houses...