Word: extention
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...essence, the B. A. A. is destroying an important aspect of the Marathon because it claims that the number of entrants is too great to be accommodated. The B. A. A. has always discriminated to some extent-only three years ago, Jock was wrestling girls off the course-so this increased discrimination is not so much the issue...
When the matter is starvation, we can all imagine the feeling to some extent, for all of us have gone without a day's meals at one time. To go without food for a week or a month is certainly different, but we can imagine. We can also imagine the feeling of burning napalm glued to your body, because we have all burned our fingers on a stove. The more able your imagination, the more able you are to extrapolate from a modest experience to an intensive one, the more suffering you can understand...
...THAT I can relate to is a kind of oppression that could happen to me. I can imagine what it is like for a white man to starve. Even then I am unable to comprehend the overwhelming extent to which black people are forced into the worst jobs, the extent to which they are beaten and murdered by the police, the extent to which they have the creativity stomp-out of them. I can read the Black Panther every week, but all I can grasp each week is another eviction, or another Panther office destroyed. I could multiply the number...
...Nixon's desegregation message three weeks ago. Burger urged the court to take future school cases that could "resolve some of the basic practical problems" of its past rulings, "including whether, as a constitutional matter, any particular racial balance must be achieved in the schools; to what extent school districts and zones may or must be altered; to what extent transportation may or must be provided...
...when I found it. I noticed that it was out of order. I sensed catastrophe. Failure to find a bathroom would no doubt be a factor in my ability to stay on the subways for 19 consecutive hours. On the bright side, this search for facilities helped to some extent to take my mind off the time...