Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...higher outlook for American democracy has given way to the more pedestrian concept of "getting America moving again" and to the even more disappointing emphasis on staying ahead of the Russians. Most liberals (and probably Senator Kennedy himself) feel that the Democrats' programs of school construction, urban renewal, civil rights progress and social welfare are worth doing on their own merits, not merely as weapons in cold warfare. These rational liberals wish that Senator Kennedy would stress these merits, rather than the matter of beating the Russians...
...golden opportunity to exploit the religion issue in Catholic (as well as Protestant) sections of the U.S. by running and rerunning the film. From the Peale manifesto on, conservative Catholics, who leaned toward Nixon, began to move into the Kennedy camp-carrying with them many a vote-heavy urban center out of the 1956 Republican column...
Begun last month in an urban-renewal area in southwest Washington. Amidon is open to any Washington child whose parents provide transportation. Its 465 students, about half of them Negro, are housed in a two-story red brick building that looks like any other elementary school in the land. The big difference lies in the premise on which Hansen has founded Amidon: "The main purpose of organized education is to cultivate the basic subjects as the building blocks of intelligent behavior...
When news of the shooting reached Africans in other urban areas, spontaneous demonstrations were staged in protest against the police action. Several men and women fled from South Africa because they feared arrest...
With attendance steady the program was to try more ambitious undertakings. Because boys expressed repeatedly the need for movement among urban Africans...