Word: tumbledown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only a few years ago, Dr. Smith would have had no hospital privileges, except in tumbledown quarters reserved for Negroes. For almost a century, "segregationists had a neatly effective exclusion device: hospital appointments were open only to members of the county medical societies. And the societies were exclusively white. For 29 years, the A.M.A. gently "urged" member groups to integrate, but few did. Smith was among the Negro doctors who embarrassed the A.M.A. by picketing its 1963 convention. The A.M.A. made its urgings a bit stronger. The Hinds County Medical Society was among those that yielded. It admitted Smith...
...Pentagon's "Bombing Encyclopedia" for North Viet Nam lists 18,000 potential targets, ranging from a tumbledown bamboo bridge over a little-used canal to Ho Chi Minh's Hanoi headquarters. Only 5,000 of them are considered militarily significant, and most can be attacked at the Pentagon's discretion. Between 350 and 400 politically sensitive targets have been referred to President Johnson for his personal approval to raid them. To date, he has given the go-ahead on all but approximately...
...disport himself on Bimini (which he calls "Adam's Eden") in the company of the comely Corinne (whom he calls "Huffie"). By now, Powell treats the Bimini natives as if they were his constituents. Whether holding forth at his favorite hangout, Brown's Hotel bar in the tumbledown gingerbread village of Alice Town-where he sips Beck's beer and "cowbells" (Cutty Sark and milk)-or slapping backs on the street, Powell calls the Biminians "my kin" and "soul brother." At week's end, he prepared reluctantly to leave them and face his troubles back home...
...Their privations nowhere approach those of Asia's (or even some of Europe's) submerged millions-yet the wretchedness of America's poor is accentuated by the opulence of the society that surrounds them. More than 7,500,000 Americans live in rat-infested tenements or tumbledown shacks that are officially-and euphemistically-classified as "dilapidated"; 1,500 U.S. citizens still die yearly from diseases caused by malnutrition; 6,000,000 subsist on free Government surpluses. In today's society, the nation's 11 million functional illiterates are relegated for life to the precarious ranks...
...private schools, to go to the free schools. None did out of principle, but Dickie was joined by three white students who are the children of poor farmers. One is a girl of seven, another a boy of eight. The third is Brenda Abernathy, 16, who lives in a tumbledown shack. Her ordeal, rising out of the poverty of her father, is tougher than Dickie's, but Superintendent Sullivan was heartened by her presence, however reluctant. Said he in his opening prayer: "We ask you to bless the students and to encourage them to take advantage of an opportunity...