Word: riche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than the black. But when the Farm Workers Union launched its attack on the growers--the core of Anglo economic power in central California--and when the union won several significant victories, the Mexican-Americans began to see their fight as a part of a larger struggle of the rich against the poor. "Now I know I'm a black man, too," says Munoz...
...THERE IS NO such thing as a middle class in this country," he argues, "There's just two ways--rich and poor. Right now the poor are still fighting the poor and the richos are just sitting up there laughing...
...tendency among Chavez' strikers to split the world into rich and poor has strained relations between the United Farm Workers and their sister AFL-CIO unions. In 1965, Chavez' National Farm Workers Association joined the AFL-CIO simply because it could not survive without large-scale financial aid. There is no question that a $5000 monthly contribution by the United Auto Workers has kept the Farm Workers above water. But, as Munoz puts it, many of the farmworkers feel that "the man who makes $50 a day cannot ever understand the man who makes...
...Cornell struck first. With 9:24 gone in the first quarter, star center forward Nick Alexandridis, who led the Ivy League in scoring last year, broke through the Crimson's defense, faked goalie Rich Locksley, and bounced the ball past him into the left corner...
...they ought to be in the world today." In China's destitution and Mao's efforts to eradicate the past, Moravia finds the possibility of rejuvenation. For, once the past has been destroyed, says he, echoing Mao, it "will be replaced by a future that is equally rich in wisdom and refinement...