Word: segmental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nation to independence from Britain eight years ago, promptly paid the students' fines, but his gesture failed to appease the militants. Threatened with strikes by sugar, bus and postal workers, Williams declared a state of emergency and arrested 13 militants. A few hours later, a segment of the nation's 720-man army, nursing grievances of its own, staged a mutiny at its Teteron Bay headquarters, and rioting broke out in the capital...
...Although its focus is limited to a small segment of the University, we entirely approve of this report as an initial attempt to define some important areas for study," two members of the NOW Equal Academic Opportunity Task Force wrote in a letter accompanying the petition...
Neither the book nor the film has a conventional plot. The players move from segment to segment, progressing in Ursula and Birkin's case to partial salvation, in Gudrun and Gerald's to personal destruction...
...most of white America, the black church is an alien segment of the nation's culture, hidden behind the plain facades of large brick city churches, the rude clapboard of country chapels, the salvation-emblazoned windows of tattered store fronts. It is a montage of impressions, some real, some misleading: the low-moaning spirituals, the clapping and the shouted amens; the phenomenon of a Father Divine and the curious charisma once possessed by the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell; the prophetic, nation-shaking philosophy of a Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the pragmatic, neighborhood-building politics...
...Federal Judiciary to pass on the qualifications of potential nominees. Variants of the so-called "Missouri plan" would give similar panels even more responsibility; a President could pick only from men selected during the panelists' theoretically nonpartisan deliberations. Yet the A.B.A. committee generally represents a narrow segment of successful lawyers, and it has never turned down a Supreme Court nominee. Most scholars argue that any such commission would be more likely than a President to rule out unconventional candidates...