Word: spurn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sartorial tone and tough radicalism dominated the rhetoric last week when 350 delegates to the First National Black Economic Conference met in Detroit. First they ejected white news men. Then they rejected capitalism for a socialist state for Negroes. Within this brave new world, young Negroes would spurn such "dead end" and "status quo" jobs as driving trucks, delivering mail or repairing television sets...
...military career people must feel pretty frustrated to find themselves blamed for failures that are manifestly the result of political constraints. The ironic part is that if we neglect our defenses and spurn our defenders, another Pearl Harbor may occur. Then public feeling will well up, and courting of our soldiers will once again be in style. As Rudyard Kipling wrote of the peacetime military man nearly 80 years...
...will have priority. Students will fashion their own curriculum, teach each other, study on their own up to a third of the time, and quit school, return or transfer at will. Scholars, predicts Lewis B. Mayhew, a professor of higher education at Stanford, will be paid well enough to spurn research grants and outside fees. They will thus finally be able to accept the idea that "their chief duty is to help young people change...
Black Power is only a slogan, but it is real to great numbers of people-r and it has many different shades of meaning. In its crudest definition, it is the war cry of embittered firebrands who spurn white America and propagate the nightmare of ghetto violence. To others, Black Power is the impractical dream of a separate black state. But the term can also connote the emergence of Negroes as a cohesive political force, the building of black economic muscle, the recognition of an Afro-American cultural identity. To many black leaders, that is the only realistic meaning...
...Corp. President Leo H. Schoenhofen, 53, as president, the holding company would run both firms as autonomous subsidiaries retaining their own identities. Stockholders of both companies still must approve the combine, but Brooker cannily concocted a deal so sweet that Container shareholders, at least, should find it hard to spurn...