Word: scales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...houses Parliament. Then it will be placed on a gun carriage and escorted by slow-marching troops through the silent heart of London to St. Paul's Cathedral. Statesmen and soldiers, old comrades and old foes will come from all over the world for the obsequies, which in scale and splendor will be unsurpassed by any funeral for a commoner in British history...
City officials generally assume that the social workers' dedication transcends such matters as salary scale. During months of conflict with the city over their grievances, the welfare workers' unions demanded a probably excessive $950 raise in starting salaries, a maximum of $9,000 a year after six years' service, and a reduction in case loads. The city offered a probably niggardly increase of $300 a year and little else. Result: fortnight ago the investigators called a strike...
Poison Plot. Astonishingly enough, Eugen has been little studied, and this thorough biography by Nicholas Henderson, a high-ranking member of Britain's Foreign Office, is the first full-scale account in English of this extraordinary man. His career is only comprehensible in terms of a day when Europe was fragmented into provinces rather than nations, when men were loyal to patrons rather than nations, and when aristocrats felt more kinship to other aristocrats than to their own peasants. Eugen was the product of just such confused loyalties, unimaginable in these tidier times. For all his years serving...
Within the movement, King has played an historic role in popularizing the methods of nonviolent direct action on a mass scale. In Montgomery, in Birmingham, and in St. Augustine, he attracted the eyes and the hearts of the nation, as hundreds, often thousands, of Negroes sat-in, prayed-in, swam-in, or simply marched through the streets to protest racial injustice...
...City Council was reported prepared to launch a full-scale investigation in an attempt to learn if any of the state's anti-discrimination laws had been broken...