Word: puts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Supreme Court had forbidden it, but they prayed defiantly in a school in Netcong, N.J., reading the morning invocation from the Congressional Record. In the state legislatures, they introduced more than 100 Draconian bills to put down campus dissent. In West Virginia, they passed a law absolving police in advance of guilt in any riot deaths. In Minneapolis they elected a police detective to be mayor. Everywhere, they flew the colors of assertive patriotism. Their car windows were plastered with American-flag decals, their ideological totems. In the bumper-sticker dialogue of the freeways, they answered MAKE LOVE...
...here. I appreciate this country. I came from a poor family. I try to mind my own business. I go to work and hope the job will last, but I'm getting squeezed. The middle people, they're being told by the poor that they have to put up houses for them, they're being told by the rich that they have to support this program to build houses for the poor. I know, O.K., the poor might benefit, but the rich guy, the so-called do-gooder, he sounds so morally fine but doesn...
...water Congress, a stick-in-the-mud assembly." In fact, the Congress was indecisive. It both declined to advance much of Nixon's legislative program and failed to establish any clear opposition program of its own. Only belatedly did Congress attend to even its basic housekeeping chores. It put off to the New Year, for instance, the Labor and Health-Education-Welfare appropriation bill, largest of the domestic funding measures. Several important proposals never reached the floor. The blame fell mainly on faltering leadership among the Democrats in control of Congress and vacillation by the President...
Twice during November, a small band of Indians put ashore on the island of Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay. Twice, U.S. officials escorted them quickly back to the mainland. It was a different story the third time. Fourscore young Indians ferried to the Rock at night, and instead of being turned back, they were welcomed by Deputy Caretaker Glenn Dodson, who announced that he was one-eighth Indian himself. Thereupon, Dodson directed them to quarters in what had been the warden's house before the Federal Government closed the prison...
WHAT would happen if Israel suddenly agreed to repatriate a sizable number of Arab refugees? How would the Arabs be received and how would they live? One hint may be found in the status of the Arabs who stayed put when Israel was founded in 1948 and are now full citizens of the predominantly Jewish state...