Word: upshot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...upshot, concludes Wallace, is that black men bought the racist "blackbuck" image of themselves. They became content to mouth slogans ("Black Power") and affect Afro hairdos and guns, and all but abandoned effective political action. "Come 1966," says Wallace in her polemic style, "the black man had two pressing tasks before him: a white woman in every bed and a black woman under every heel." In response, she says, black women became more submissive and, despite the image of some social scientists of black society as a matriarchy, no longer behaved like the mythic black superwoman...
...American Express Co. is to win its battle for McGraw-Hill Inc., the magazine, book and information-services giant, it will have to be by way of a revolt of Mc Graw-Hill shareholders against their own management. That was the upshot of fast-moving developments last week that abruptly switched the tide of battle in one of Wall Street's biggest takeover wars ever...
...gloomy wrangling it takes most married people years to discover. The problem is that Marcie is even richer than Oliver but shares none of his guilt over that enviable condition. Her pleasure in being one of the Bonwits of Bonwit Teller makes Oliver more and more sullen. The upshot is that he leaves her to join his own family's business, a New England mill whose workers, he thinks, need his liberal-minded ministrations. The picture ends with a voice-over announcing his intention to make his good works Jenny's monument...
WITH ONLY 53 days remaining on his sentence, Billy learns that the Turkish government, incensed over a diplomatic dispute with Washington, has singled him out as an "example" among foreign drug smugglers; the upshot is a new 30-year sentence, which provokes Billy to deliver an ugly tirade against the Turkish people and nation during his day in court. This marks a new phase, the hardening of Billy Hayes if you will. Billy joins Jimmy Booth in his latest escape plans, Billy goes berserk and mutilates the lifeless body of Rifki (a scene that ranks up there with the most...
...upshot of the 14-day workout period-- which can best be described as reminiscent of medieval torture tactics--is that Harvard may come up with an outstanding squad, possibly one to rival the IC4A champions team of two years past...