Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BIRMINGHAM was, in many ways, a turning point for the civil rights movement. It was the first movement in which children and young people played a starring role. "Suffer the little children." Martin King said, as the little black faces poured out of the segregated schools and into the fight in the street. But, in Birmingham, it was the little children who suffered...
...faculty is frozen. Foreseeable budget deficits will prod the Administration to make Faculty outs, only to worsen even more the student-faculty ratio and enlarge already crowded classrooms. The Budget Office may find solace in increasing the total number of students but the educational quality of Harvard can only suffer...
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Chance and skill play about equal roles in the outcome of the game, say the Mattel people. It is perfectly possible, for example, to outguess the defense and complete a long pass, but then suffer a fumble. Talking Football is the firm's major entry in the game business this year. Though sales figures are secret, Mattel declares: "Early movement is very encouraging." Not for football widows...
...sight, and Margaret found the evening "strangely confusing" because she did not then know that everyone had been given a signal to ignore her. The ostracism lasted all year, and for the first time Mead learned that both those who reject and those who are rejected generally suffer "irreversible character damage...