Word: stressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...addition to the physical closeness of whites and Negroes, there was a constant stress on interracial cooperation. On the first night of the conference, the students joined in singing "We Shall Overcome," the themesong of the movement. After the group sang three verses of the song, James Forman, SNCC'S executive secretary, quickly made his way up to the stage and whispered in the ear of one of the song leaders. The singer nodded, and shouted out the next verse, "Black and white together...
...critics stress the danger of a backwash of resentment against the militancy of a plan to constipate movement of traffic through the city. The stall-in, they argue, will alienate moderates from the civil rights struggle. This would make the city officials more hesitant to act and could reinforce any campaign in the Senate to water down the civil rights bill. And so the debate has raged...
Campus wits called it "the coronation of the Kingman" and Yale's Kingman Brewster Jr. jovially agreed. With two days of pomp and ceremony designed by him to stress that "Yale is an important asset of world civilization," the 263-year-old university last week inaugurated Brewster as its 17th president...
Asseyev has reportedly been under great emotional stress since the January incident and his subsequent decision to seek asylum in this country. He has a wife and child in the Soviet Union, and there was some doubt about the success of any attempts to bring them to this country...
...launched just 15 years ago with $6,000,000 from the late William L. Mellon, then board chairman of Gulf Oil. Now almost twice as rich the one-building school holds itself to 125 students and 35 professors (average age: 34). The school's renown comes from its stress on "scientific decision making"-a systems approach to orchestrating companies by using the most advanced technological tools. Such gelt-edged Gestalt, said one British economist in a recent assessment of J.S.^business schools, has made Carnegie "the one with the highest intellectual level...