Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...five years old, more than half of them Negroes, were dead of lead poisoning. And of more than 40 others who had been seriously ill, most would be left with permanent brain damage. Ironically, Chicago has long had as rigorous a program for the prevention, detection and treatment of lead poisoning as any city in the U.S., and is now making it still more strict...
...charge that the Negro is too militant in his fight for social and political justice, I would say that after 400 years of cruel, barbaric and unjust treatment, the American Negro is fed up with the unmitigated gall and hypocrisy, as well as the moral cowardliness, of the white...
...thrown into her cell. After being transferred to a juvenile detention center in another county, she was placed in solitary confinement and the light was removed from her cell. Later a police dog was brought to her cell and allowed to threaten her. When she finally responded to this treatment, she declared that she didn't need an electric light because Jesus was her light. She refused to talk with the FBI men who came to ask how she had been treated. The last is understandable from her experience...
...Mario to pick out just the right spot for the Cavalieri Hilton, declared with the spirit of a Medici commissioning a palace that he wanted it to be "a balcony of flowers overlooking Rome." Whenever Hilton appears at one of his hotels, the staff jumps to give him royal treatment-and sometimes stumbles. His bathtub at the New York Hilton was cracked, and at the Waldorf recently a flustered waiter forgot to serve him the ham he ordered with his eggs. In London he was delayed in a faulty elevator for 15 minutes, and in Amsterdam every spigot he turned...
...slender pejorative burden of Butor's book is contained in interwoven excerpts from a terrifying Salem witch trial, historical notes on the ill-treatment of American Indians, liberal quotes from the prospectus of Freedomland, U.S.A., and offerings from the views of various Southerners (real and imagined) on the Negro. Among them is one from that conscientious democrat Thomas Jefferson, who concluded, ". . . their inferiority is not the effect, merely, of their condition of life...