Word: take
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Dropouts, he said, are characterized by a desire to take risks "in order to test their capacities as well as their courage . . . . Some take drugs and go on to escalate dosage and experiment with more dangerous substance . . . . Fast driving and irresponsible sexual behavior are other risk-taking activities engaged in by young people deprived of challenges...
Blaine offered two major explanations for the dropouts desire to take risks. The first was the affluence of American society: "Young people brought up in a world where everything has come easily to them begin to long for challenge and they cast about for risks to take . . . ." The other came right from Freud: hippies act like "infants and children [who] demand instant gratification . . . demanding from drugs an instant and constant happiness." They are immature people, for "if maturity comes, it brings with it the capacity to tolerate some present pain in order to achieve a greater pleasure at some later...
While the training and promotion problems are perhaps most severe with black "helpers." they also concern whites. "All of our men-black or white-want to know, What does it take to move up?" Berry said. He added that the question was especially crucial for blacks. "since they are trying to find themselves, trying to establish their identity...
...carried the placard for two hours; now it was time to give it up. I stepped forward, and slowly, with the greatest deliberation, I placed Tinsley on top of all the others. He didn't take up much room, and I thought about what a great number of such cards would be needed to fill all ten coffins. But every two seconds, another, joined the group...
After that, about 500 of us sat, stood, or lay down to wait for buses to come and take us back to the reception centers at various points in town. We were drained. Most of the people had gone directly to Arlington as soon as they had arrived in the city. People who had been riding in buses for hours had gone on this march through the cold drizzle...