Word: wreaking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...foresee. The NIMH has granted limited amounts of LSD to clinics and research institutes for experimental use in treating such disorders as alcoholism. The new state laws likewise provide for supervised research. But their supporters are convinced that, because of the brain damage and violence that LSD can wreak, society must try to police itself against the drug's unrestrained use. Many psychiatrists agree. Among the examples they cite: an average of twelve LSD "bad trip" victims a month land, out of their minds, in New York's Bellevue Hospital; two LSD-using youths were discovered in Hollywood...
...four possible routes prominently mentioned, all will wreak havoc. Two variations down Brookline and Elm Streets near Central Square will up-root between 3000 and 5000 families and claim several thousand jobs. One alignment further East, down Portland and Albany Streets on the fringe of M.I.T.'s campus, will take from 2300 to 5000 jobs (depending on whose figures you believe). And a third possible route, using the right-of-way along railroad tracks running through part of M.I.T.'s campus, will take a significant number of laboratories as well as claiming more than a thousand jobs and several hundred...
...reminded the steelworkers that their hourly wages ($4.40, including benefits) were already one-third higher than the average for industrial workers; they hardly needed a massive, inflationary raise. Then, in stern-fatherly fashion, he urged both sides to weigh the grave damage a strike could wreak on the U.S. economy, on the war in Viet Nam. To underline his point, he noted that the record 116-day steel strike in 1959 had plunged the nation straight into a nine-month recession...
...example, if he is called Uncle, a kind of saint. He is there, he endures, he will forgive us, and this is a key to that image. But if he is not Uncle, if he is merely Tom, he is a danger to everybody. He will wreak havoc on the countryside. When he is Uncle Tom, he has no sex?when he is Tom, he does?and this obviously says much more about the people who invented this myth than it does about the people who are the object of it." The Negro is thus penalized for "the guilty imagination...
Baldwin has understanding but little sympathy for the Black Muslim movement (TIME, Aug. 10, 1959) and its mystical leaders, who contend that "Allah" will wreak vengeance on the "white devil." Visiting the Muslim leader Elijah Muhammad in Chicago, Baldwin found himself wanting to defend his white friends. "I suddenly had a glimpse of what white people must go through at a dinner table when they are trying to prove that Negroes are not subhuman." When he left, he felt that he and Elijah "would always be strangers, and possibly, one day, enemies." The Muslim, fantasy of achieving power disturbed Baldwin...