Word: shred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Representative Barry Goldwater Jr. called it "an outrage." South Carolina's Senator Strom Thurmond said, "There is not a shred of authority for such an action." But Clarence Mitchell, chairman of The Leadership Council on Civil Rights called it "wonderful," and compared it to the Lord's work...
...critical decision last week lay in the rough and sturdy hands of the 165,000 United Mine Workers. In scores of begrimed towns throughout Appalachia, in settings as varied as Utah, Missouri and Pennsylvania, they marched to their union headquarters to cast their ballots-or, in some instances, angrily shred and burn their copies of the pact. And though the final results would not be in until this week, from the very first tallies the tide ran heavily against acceptance of the contract...
They offer it as a series of melodramatic cliches, seen strictly in terms of black (noble, long-suffering, righteous) and white (sadistic, loutish, bigoted). Any shred of evidence damaging to Jackson - and there is a good deal - is conveniently omitted...
...although she has not been able to find the license, claims that she and her children have nothing to live on while the courts try to untangle Martin's estate. Says she bleakly: "My humility is gone. My pride is gone. I don't have a shred of dignity left. I've been reduced to having to beg for aid for dependent children and food stamps. I can go through anything, but those children have...
Malone must have forgotten his superiors' orders to shred each year what was probably the touchiest record of all. Thus, when he retired last year, he left behind in his safe a list of apparently illegal burglaries conducted by FBI agents in New York and other cities since 1971 in a desperate attempt to uncover information about Weatherman bombings and the fugitive bomb throwers. The list moved through FBI channels to the Justice Department and exploded last week like a bombshell...