Word: splits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...labeled the Black man as "Boy." Whether he be 15 or 70 he's still just plain old "Boy." "Why yes, I know him, he's a good colored boy." The White welfare agent keeps a constant check on whether the Black father is coing home nights. This splits the Black family just as it's been split since the late 1500's and early 1600's. So it seems that "Whitie" is a chief symbol of success while little Black children are being robbed of a strong Black male figure to look up to. Destroying the Black...
Moscow has watched the other Communist governments of Eastern Europe split badly on the Czechoslovak issue. Communist parties throughout Western Europe, moreover, reared back in almost unanimous disapproval of Russian pressure on Prague. In campaigns to win support from respectable liberals, their leaders had advertised Dubček's "renewal," as Italian Party Boss Luigi Longo called it, to be the party's exciting new image. Now Moscow has damaged and perhaps destroyed that image. The resulting bitterness in the Communist camp has raised serious doubt that the Kremlin will really be able to hold the summit meeting...
...night, a high-ranking army officer rang up slumbering President Abdul Rahman Aref and announced: "I am speaking from the Ministry of Defense. Tanks are now proceeding toward the palace." Aref received quick confirmation when five warning shots split the quiet night. He chose to capitulate. Soon, with hardly a hint of further violence, he was put aboard a special Iraqi airliner to join his ailing wife in London. In his place, a nine-man, military "revolutionary Command Council" effortlessly established itself in power...
...crowd then moved from the men's dormitories to the women's dorms. No effort was made to lure women outside. Speakers simply told of what had taken place. At this time the crowd then split into several factions. Curtis Johnson, chairman of the Student Social Action Committee (SSAC), a campus black power oriented group, went to the city jail and arrived at the same time as did the college president...
...separate but almost simultaneous votes, they agreed to accept "volume discounts" of an unspecified amount on large stock transactions. They also recommended outlawing the controversial practice of "give ups"-by which a large stock trader (usually a mutual fund) directs the broker executing the order to split his commission with another brokerage firm. Often such fee splitting is a reward for unconnected services such as selling mutual-fund shares; the Government maintains that the custom undermines the whole case for fixed commissions. "Confused." As lead-off witness last week, Vice President Robert Bishop of the New York Exchange declined...