Word: shifting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before his shift, Phillips offered little opposition to Democratic Candidate John Bell Williams, 48, a racist Congressman who has pledged to deliver Mississippi's electoral votes to George Wallace. His new stance, Phillips hopes, could turn the trick in the Nov. 7 election by capturing the state's 185,000 Negro votes, along with those of whites eager for progress. Said one Mississippi Negro civil rights leader last week: "Don't be too surprised if we come out for Phillips...
...last four or five years. Also, black students are arriving on the white campus in greater numbers this year. And they have been affected not much by the summer unrest per se, but more from the forces which caused that unrest; the increased militancy within the black ghetto, the shift in emphasis in the Civil Rights Movement towards greater activism and a greater concern with political issues affecting the Negro community...
...elsewhere do have a tendency to exalt dialectical skill, to focus the mind on narrow issues, and to obscure the fact that no reasoning, however logical, can rise above the premises on which it is based. If the Harvard Law School, through its faculty activity and its teaching, could shift its concern even slightly from the generally too narrow objectives of much traditional legal scholarship, we might increase our contribution. Even in our field it may be true that 'the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life...
...many considered his greatest speech. Possibly in response to criticism that the Law School had become too concerned with technical aspects of the law, Griswold told an appreciative crowd, "A dean feels some obligation of leadership, and if the Harvard Law School, through its Faculty activity and teaching, could shift its concern from the narrow objectives of much traditional legal scholarship, we might increase our contribution
...regime, today's quality is consistently high. If Meissen's artisans no longer wear tails and top hats to work, its 1,000 employees (150 of whom are Communist Party members) can nonetheless take pride in their plant's well-preserved tradition. Still working a single shift, Meissen's chi-namakers fire their pottery to over 2,500° F. in antiquated, three-story-high ovens that hold 5,000 pieces at one time. Its painters, trained by long apprenticeships, continue to do all their work by hand-and earn an average $150 monthly. In addition...