Word: sufferings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with justice delayed and promises deferred-a fact that Cartoonist John Fischetti expressed in a drawing of an anonymous black imitating the President's "up to here" gesture. Yet viewed rationally, the long-range interests (if not the short-term problems) of the two sides coincide. The slums suffer more from crime and disorder than the suburbs, and blacks, even more than whites, need protection from the lawless. Difficult as it may be for many to believe, the lower middle class and the middle class have as much of a stake as the poor in ending poverty and discrimination...
...normals. Victims of genetically determined mongolism are notoriously susceptible to leukemia. Oddly, identical patterns appear in the palms of the mongoloid children and in those of rubella-damaged babies. The reason, according to the Australian researchers, may be that some fetuses are genetically predisposed either to leukemia, or to suffer unusually severe damage from a maternal viral infection. Such damage, they suggest, may manifest itself a few years later as leukemia...
...doth suffer a sea change...
...these, one-third have made more or less permanent extralegal arrangements. Writer Gabriella Parca, author of a much-discussed book on the predicament (I Separati), estimates that "no fewer than 5,000,000 people [one-tenth of Italy's population] are involved in the drama of indissolubility and suffer its consequences." The total includes those separated, mistresses and illegitimate children...
...homeless. They are indirectly the agents of the U.S., which aids Israel. I know blowing up the tap-line hurts Saudi Arabia. But, Saudi Arabia is a reactionary regime, and it sells its oil to those who support Israel. It is too bad for Saudi Arabia that she may suffer. Our main aim remains American interests...