Word: tides
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some Negro girls see in the Black Power movement a turning of the tide. "I really support the black cultural revolution," says Howard University's Stephanie Garrett. "Here they hold up the black woman and say, 'Look how beautiful she is.'" Other Negro girls are more leary. Huffs a Manhattan Negro career girl: "The 'black is beautiful' idea has affected very few Negro males. They still think that kinky hair and Negro lips are unattractive. A white woman is still a status symbol. It is for my brother. He married...
California is the big one and is as unpredictable as ever. Nonetheless, the anti-incumbent tide that is beginning to run elsewhere in the nation might hurt Humphrey, unless he can somehow shuck his identification with the Administration. In Arizona, Goldwater's presence on the ticket as a senatorial candidate should help Nixon overcome an overwhelmingly Democratic edge in voter registration. Nixon won Washington in 1960, and should do so again with help from both blue-and whitecollar areas, where concern with law and order runs deep. With Senator Mark Hatfield behind him in Oregon, Nixon is likely...
...coming quickly turns the tide, The propaganda floods subside...
...attacking Communist ground units cause fresh destruction and new refugees who stagger from the shattered homes, clutching meager possessions, dragging or carrying tearful, terrified children. Hospitals are packed-some 4,800 civilians have been treated for wounds since early May and refugee centers overflow under the tide of the more than 160,000 people made homeless in the past six weeks. Schools have been closed for weeks. Many youngsters wear metal identification tags or bracelets, in case they are lost or found dead or wounded. Barbed wire coils around some homes, sandbag prices and sales have shot...
...loss of exports and the flight of francs had already forced the government to spend $307 million of its $6 billion in cash and gold reserves. As a result, for the first time since 1959, the French drew $745 million from the International Monetary Fund to help tide the country over the present crisis...