Word: tomming
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...family even to finish high school, has deep roots in the Populist tradition. Populism sprang simultaneously from the soil of the Middle West and the South in the early 1890s. The movement started with small farmers rising up against exploitative big-city manufacturers, bankers and railroad owners. In Georgia, Tom Watson, a brilliant lawyer who later became a U.S. Senator, was telling Southern yeomen that they were "the sworn foes of monopoly of power, of place, of wealth, of progress." In this, however, was the classic American doctrine of opportunity-not anticapitalism, but the insistence that, as Watson said...
...League in North Dakota and the Progressive Party headed by Wisconsin's Senator Robert La Follette. The movement also developed its ugly side, later serving as a power base for such back-country bigots and racist leaders as Mississippi Senator Theodore Bilbo, Georgia Governor Eugene Talmadge and, eventually, Tom Watson. Today, however, Southern Populism is rural liberalism based on Southern culture, moral values...
Some liberal leaders, however, are still wary about Carter. Said Joseph Rauh, former chairman of Americans for Democratic Action: "The question in my mind is whether the choice of Mondale means a turn to the left or is simply a sop to liberals." Added Tom Hayden, a leader of the antiwar demonstrations at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago: "Carter represents the flip side of Democratic division. Once there was the war. Now there is bland euphoria. Some liberals have great expectations, but he could just try to restore trust by soothing without delivering...
Native-born peregrine falcons-not plentiful even when they were thriving -had not been seen in the skies over the Eastern U.S. for some 20 years. But now this fierce, graceful bird of prey, driven to the brink of extinction by DDT,* appears to be making a comeback. Ornithologist Tom Cade and his colleagues at Cornell University have succeeded in breeding peregrines in captivity and releasing them in the wild, where they can once again be seen soaring to great heights before diving on their prey at speeds of up to 200 m.p.h...
...Long-suffering Uncle Tom was the embodiment of a Christian virtue-turning the other cheek. It was not until the mid-1950s that the virtue officially became a vice in the eyes of black militants...