Word: projecting
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...gave 40 congressional leaders and other officials a preview of the speech. "You've got to take things as they are," he told them, attempting to illustrate his dilemma in Indochina with a personal anecdote. It concerned a young woman who once told him that his face did not project well on TV. "This is the face I've got," Nixon replied to her. "I've got to accept it as it is." When he rose to leave for the Oval Room, his audience stood and spontaneously applauded. It was a demonstration not of approval but of understanding. Said Mansfield...
...statement released in the afternoon, OBU recommended instead that black students channel their efforts into projects to build the black community such as the Newark election, the Cambridge Black Liberation Front Project for a year-round Black People's library, and the May 19 Solidarity Day Celebration of Malcolm X's birthday...
Work must be done in the next few years to project the strengths of black people. We are seen always as a problem and a burden, never as an asset. Everybody thinks in terms of what they must give to us, and not what we are able to give to the larger society...
...nine defendants are appealing their sentences. A lawyer from the Boston Legal Assistance Project is handling their defense. The Massachusetts Civil Liberties Union is giving them special assistance in their appeal...
...court, Sive argued that drawings prepared by the Army Corps of Engineers depicted a large dike, extending 1,000 feet into the river, and a causeway. He then cited an 1899 federal law that forbids building dikes and causeways "over or in" navigable waterways unless Congress first authorizes the project and the Secretary of Transportation approves. No such approval for the New York road had been granted...