Word: shifted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trend, over the long run, seems to be for a growing middle-class population. This slow shift is more significant than it appears. Cambridge traditionally has been pictured not only as a city of neighborhoods (Brattle St. being the Harvard-oriented community with Harvard Square as its shopping center), but also as a city split between rich and poor. It was the Yankees vs. the Irish, or, in a more sophisticated version, the Aristocrats vs. the Immigrants...
President Johnson went along with many of the Commission's ideas, supporting particularly the lottery and the shift to the 19-year old pool. On student deferments, however, he committed himself only to ending graduate school deferments...
Civil libertarians, like University of Pennsylvania Law Professor Anthony Amsterdam, feel that the court has "turned a corner," and that from now on the balance will shift against criminal defendants and civil rights demonstrators. But the new-found moderation might be better read as an indication that many cases now reaching the court are no longer as clearly in violation of its reading of the Constitution. The court activists, who used to find themselves most often in the majority of 5-4 decisions, now increasingly lose at least one of their number to the re-strainers. The man whom most...
General Motors sent home 4,000 day-shift workers from its Linden, N.J., plant and canceled operations at five other facilities. Laboratories, factories and offices throughout the heavily industrialized region also shut down. Schoolchildren got an unexpected holiday; police and firemen were called in for emergency shifts. At a Wilmington medical center, a 10-lb. 2-oz. boy was born by flashlight...
...commentators had kind words for the United Nations. What the war shows, wrote Washington Post Columnist David Broder, is that "once the U.S. enters an arena of international politics, it cannot opt out. Nor can it shift the responsibilities it has assumed to the U.N. The deterioration of the U.N. as a moral and political force in world affairs has been revealed more clearly by the Mideast crisis than by any other event in recent years. That is an unpleasant fact, but it can no longer be evaded, even by those in our country who have found in Secretary-General...