Word: second-class
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...race, we must work passionately and unrelentingly for first-class citizenship, but we must never use second-class methods to gain it. If this happens, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and our chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos...
...external security. Communist subversion would therefore be the responsibility of Malaya's powerful and expert police system. Naturally the Barisan Socialists rant that Malaya's government is "reactionary, repressive and misguided." scream that the Malaysia Federation plan is a "sellout" that would make Singapore's Chinese "second-class citizens...
Thus, Dodds can say, "It is not correct to attribute failure, or even second-class citizenship, to those who may lack the talents that make them well publicized personally but who operate quietly to improve the quality of their institutions. To lift a college from relative mediocrity to relative excellence is a notable achievement...Progress throughout all levels is inspired by emulation as well as by innovation...
...three of the major classes of mail are affected. First-class (ordinary letter mail) would rise from 4? to 5? an ounce. Second-class (by which newspapers and magazines deliver to mail subscribers) would go up a penny: half a cent this year, another half-cent in 1963. The cost of third-class mail-chiefly direct-mail advertising, which most publications rely upon for winning new readers and keeping old ones -would also rise about one penny per piece of mail...
...does the Harvard Ticket Office treat us students as something less than second-class citizens? Why aren't we given ample notice of the times of ticket sales? Why aren't we given the privilege of mailing in or phoning in our applications for tickets--as the alumni are? Why must we always wait in line? Why don't we get better seats? Why must we be treated with so much hostility by the agents...