Word: constructed
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...much of its history it has been the property of an elite. White radicals are graduates of the 1967 march, the McCarthy campaign and the battle of Chicago. Looking back at the peace movement, one can see that many of its aims were highly elitist: to construct a coalition of anti-war politicians, professors, lawyers, doctors, writers, students and intellectuals and form a moral witness which would force the rest of the nation into an admiring submission. The Civil Rights movement-probably the closest thing the sixties saw to a "poor people's movement"-created a perhaps unavoidable fear...
Fragments of the demolished desk of Col. Donald Bletz, a CFIA associate, have been sent to Washington where the FBI is processing a partial fingerprint found on one of the fragments. FBI labs are also analyzing fragments of the cast-iron pipe used to construct the bomb. There is speculation the Fragments are similar to fragments of material used in other Massachusetts bombings...
...took his share of arrests and beatings. He was in charge of the demonstration the day in 1963 that Birmingham's Bull Connor set dogs on the marchers. But it was as a behind-the-scenes man, a bargainer, that he made his mark. He helped to construct the settlements of racial disputes in Birmingham and Selma and was a negotiator in the hospital strike in Charleston; he was the mediator in Resurrection City who tried to unite blacks, Mexican Americans and Indians...
...indictment is incomplete. Galbraith fails to uncover the misshapen ideology which unifies all these blunders or suggest the basis of a new public philosophy. Liberal ideology must also come to grips with the paralyzing vision of an anti-Democratic, sullen, and silent majority. Only then can the Democrats construct an imaginative platform that will guarantee social justice, clearly differentiate themselves from the Republicans and hold together more than half the electorate once every four years...
...each other and loving each other, we were already married. It's not the state's business." But when the state sent Fumio deportation papers in 1965, "we went to City Hall." They have no children, Fumio explains, because they are "two individuals. We cannot really construct a family system, because if we start to feel possessive, that's the end of our relationship...