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Word: sideless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wondered about the impact of nonviolence on whites, "You should ask Martin Luther King that question." A white guest who stirred a big switchboard jam was New York's Mayor John Lindsay. Quizzed on the war in Viet Nam, Lindsay replied that it was "unproductive, unwanted, endless, bottomless, sideless, and its cost is unquestionably affecting the problems in our cities." Another night, White Radical Saul Alinsky, in sympathy with black callers, blasted the Job Corps as a "payoff to stay quiet" and categorized much of the rest of the poverty program as "a public relations gimmick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Cool Hot Line | 8/23/1968 | See Source »

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