Word: sluggishness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...egalitarian revolution in the South sometimes moves like a spring flood, seeping over and around the barriers, running ahead of the sluggish channels dredged by the law. One afternoon last fortnight, such a spring freshet bubbled up in the textile city of Greensboro, N.C. (pop. 125,000) when four young college students-freshmen from the Negro Agricultural and Technical College-walked into the F.W. Woolworth store on South Elm Street and quietly sat down at the lunch counter. The white patrons eyed them warily, and the white waitresses ignored their studiously polite requests for service. The students continued...
...Sluggish Growth. Clearly the Democrats were driving toward a broad attack on the economic issue. In the eyes of the Joint Economic Committee's indignant Democratic majority, the Eisenhower Administration's "neglect" of fiscal policy had seriously hurt the economy. The majority report rapped G.O.P. emphasis on "tight money" as an economic stabilizer, urged renewal of the Truman Administration's "easy money" policies. Credit restraint by the Republicans, charged the report, had not only failed to halt price upcreep but had also slowed the growth of the economy. Giving themselves the best of the Korean war boom...