Word: extention
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...principals of the black schools are masters at exploiting the black people. Children have to pay for their own pencils and paper. And frequently there are school functions, sometimes during school time-like dances or a May Day festival-for which all those who attend must pay. To some extent the principals are forced to do this, because the county school board gives the black schools pitifully small budgets...
...fakes pregnancy (with the help of a pillow) to get on welfare. She does not succeed, though, because the case-worker who comes to call is enamored of her silver shoes ("Just like the shoes Joan Crawford always wore!") to the extent that he will not put her on the dole list unless she gives them to him. She will not. Bribing welfare workers to get the money she rightfully deserves is a violation of her principles...
...significant extent, the mechanization theory of counter-insurgency warfare has reversed the tide in Southeast Asia and enabled the United States to progress toward its ultimate goal of ruling the area. Realizing that there was no other way to defeat a liberation movement which commanded a majority following, U. S. leaders opted for mechanical elimination of rural support. The strategy has worked almost completely in Vietnam; and with one-third of Laos now living in caves and one-tenth of all Cambodia rendered homeless by U. S. bombing, there is reason to believe that the strategy will also work...
...Your piece on Martha Mitchell [Nov. 30] was quite amusing, but you failed to spell out one thing. What happens when the size of the mouth exceeds that of the brain to such an extent that one completely overpowers the other? I would say it's idiocy over intellect by a wide margin, which is precisely what is happening in Washington today...
...sometimes find their popularity skidding. Harry Truman entered the White House at F.D.R.'s death with a favorable Gallup poll rating of 87%. By October, 1946, the figure dropped to 32%, but Truman won two years later anyway. Particularly interesting in the current Harris poll, however, is the extent of disaffection with Nixon's conduct in this fall's campaigns. Among those polled, 6% rated his campaign performance as "excellent," 29% as "pretty good," 25% as "only fair," and 30% as "poor...