Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...during that period, but the gains have been primarily in Government jobs. Negroes hold 23% of the city jobs in New York, 30% in Cleveland, 40% in Philadelphia. At the federal level, 13.2% of the nation's civil service employees are Negroes. Negroes sit in the U.S. Cabinet and on the Federal Reserve Board, act as postmasters of two major cities (Los Angeles and Chicago); six are U.S. ambassadors, 16 federal judges. In the armed forces, the number of Negro field-grade officers (major through colonel) has jumped since 1962 from...
...special commission for Montagnard affairs, named a Montagnard to head it. He promised to return tribal lands to Montagnard control, create a special Montagnard pennant to be flown alongside the national flag, and set up an elite highland military force under Montagnard command. Nine Montagnard representatives now sit in Saigon's Constitutional Assembly, and tribal languages are again being taught in highland schools. More than 500 scholarships have been granted to Montagnards; two students left last week for studies...
...painted his 1966 portrait of Konrad Adenauer as a figure illusory and shrinking in form, as if wasting away. "He's very cunning, stately, vital," says Kokoschka of the 90-year-old former German chief of state, adding in admiration, "For three weeks he posed, never wanting to sit. 'You are standing,' he said...
...name for the Mamas' and the Papas' sound, which is just as well, since no other group could imitate and cash in on it anyway. The Righteous Brothers, on the other hand, are credited with founding a "school of rock 'n' roll, blue-eyed soul." You have to sit up close to verify that Bill Medley and Bobby Hatfield do indeed have blue eyes, but you could have sat anyplace in the Back Bay Theatre and figured out that the Righteous Brothers have about as much soul as Laurence Welk. And this is something not to be realized lightly...
...fact remains that UPO has seemed far more energetic leading the poor in futile picketing and sit-ins than it has coordinating and administering the programs it is responsible for. One demonstration protested the absence of pins to secure the seats on the toilets in a public housing project -- scarcely the most weighty of housing problems in Washington. A head count revealed seven of the ten demonstrators to be neighborhood