Word: playground
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...line with tear gas. Those were the lean years for unions in America, and these members of the Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO), protesting against conditions in the maritime industry, were banned from further picketing. But the police had arrived on a windy day and there was a school playground to the side of the dock. That day it wasn't only workers who were taken to hospitals; the children also choked and wept as the stinging cloud hit them...
...seriousness of the situation often goes unseen. Students, who regard the city as their playground and live on land taken from the community by universities or in three-deckers that used to house working families, are unwitting contributors to the crisis. Living four or five to an apartment in buildings which landlords can allow to deteriorate because of the tenants'transience, students drive up rents and drive out working-class families, who are hit the hardest by a regressive land tax based on the assessed value of realty and passed on to the tenant by the landlord to preserve...
When one of our group asked his guide about a nondescript gray building next to a children's playground downtown, he was told only that it "belongs to the government." In fact, it is Hoa Lo prison, the notorious "Hanoi Hilton," where captured Americans were held. Today it serves as a jail for common criminals. Another visitor noticed on sale in a shop a stack of pocket-size packages of Kleenex, obviously liberated from a U.S. Army PX in the South. His escort explained, "That is merely a souvenir from Ho Chi Minh City [as Saigon has been renamed...
...city kids are sticking close to home and jumping on the New York City basketball bandwagon. Just a few of the converts from playground macadam will tread the hardwood of the IAB this weekend...
...number of conditions before fully backing it. They want more special training in dealing with the handicapped as well as additional support from child psychologists and social workers. Moreover, funds have to be found in state and school district budgets to install elevators, ramps, special bathroom fixtures and playground equipment. Charlie Walker, associate director of the New Jersey Education Association, charges that some school boards "flagrantly" misuse mainstreaming "to throw handicapped kids into regular classrooms and cut back previously existing special-education services...