Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Power to Burn. Then, in the early 19th century, the gold and diamond rush tailed off. Minas Gerais sank into backwoods somnolence. Not until the 20th century did the state come alive again. Even then the real surge had to wait until Juscelino Kubitschek, born in the old diamond center of Diamantina, moved into the governor's palace in 1951 in the new capital of Belo Horizonte. "Power and transportation," pledged Kubitschek, and that was only the beginning...
...Martin Luther King Jr., the Southern Negroes' most outstanding leader: "We're through with tokenism and gradualism and see-how-far-you've-comeism. We're through with we've-done-more-for -your -people -than -anyone -elseism. We can't wait any longer. Now is the time...
...must abolish present discrimination. Some well-meaning whites exhort the Negroes to lift themselves up, study, aspire, become qualified, earn the equality they demand. Discrimination, the argument runs, would dwindle much more rapidly if disparities of culture and training were overcome. That is true enough, but the Negroes cannot wait that long. After generations of submission to segregation, they are marching in the streets, chanting "Freedom! Freedom! Freedom...
...Canada's foreign investment capital and in turn control about 55% of all Canadian industry. The new taxes will probably decrease the overall rate of U.S. investment somewhat. Both Washington and Wall Street regarded the moves as clearly discriminatory. But most investors and government officials were inclined to wait and see how much they hurt and how disheartening the hurt would turn out to be. Considering the continuing U.S. deficit in international payments, there could conceivably be a benefit in having at least a few U.S. dollars turned back at the border. Yet that effect might be offset...
With a capacity for some 400 patients, Schweitzer's clinic is forever jammed. The sick, carrying paper tags with their names, villages and tribes, wait for hours to see the doctors, are bedded down on straw-mattress cots in dark, stench-ridden huts whose earth floors are awash during the rainy season. Outside, over open fires, the patients' women relatives cook, while a horde of chickens, dogs and goats (protected under Schweitzer's "reverence for life" mystique by which no living thing should be unnecessarily disturbed) roam at will, adding freely to the surrounding filth. When...