Word: wente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...everything went right for the Crimson in the fourth quarter. With the crucial advantage of the wind and sun at its back, Harvard finally put offense and defense together to roll up the points...
When families went in to get their commodities, they found that the Agriculture workers were giving them whatever happened to be overproduced by American farms that month. When the surplus was corn or flour or other relatively wholesome staples, things worked out. But sometimes, the surplus items didn't happen to match with what the families needed to eat. One month two years ago, families walked away from the Commodities office with 25-pound sacks of peanuts. Another time in 1964 the total monthly distribution consisted of beets and celery. Even in the best months, there is an obvious lack...
...houses are probably the most shocking part. In the 1930's, in the depths of the depression, James Agee and Walker Evans went to Alabama to photograph and write about Southern rural poverty. Several of the buildings in the picture section of their book, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, still exist. Thirty years of occupancy have not improved the buildings. And where the buildings are different from the ones Agee and Evans saw, they are not much better...
...Miller's cotton allotment. Cotton is one of the nation's surplus crops, and each farmer can plant only as many acres as the Cotton Office allows him. Unfortunately, the Cotton Office is run by white Alabamians, and that often means there is discrimination. Miller's allotment went to a white planter in the country--a man who already had more than 300 acres allotted--and Miller's appeal to the Cotton Office brought no results...
...Bossert went to Edward T. Wilcox, director of General Education, and Wilcox carried the problem to Dean Ford, who agreed to double the budget for the course, so that 300 students could enroll...