Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...members are now circulating a petition in support of ghetto riots, and are planning to print the statement as a full-page advertisement in the Record-American...
...RIOT of words is given meaning and support by the careful structure of the book. Each section opens with a visit to one of the six Sages that Hatterr consults. Testing the teaching of each Sage, attempting to find an order to life, he is driven into some ludicrous situations-in one segment, for example, he winds up as a human serving dish for the meals of a circus tiger. After each adventure, though, he returns to his friend Banerrji, a staid and stable clerk, who provides Hatterr with an anchor in reality...
...Harold Willens, 56, started as a $10-a-week grocery clerk to support his parents...
...sense they are, and in the case of the Callisons, the father has just as much to teach as the child. A rare cop, Callison attended the University of Portland for three years before dropping out in order to support his family by pounding a beat. As president of the 655-member Portland police union, he knows precisely how to use power to effect change. In a recent display of leadership, he coaxed and pressured Portland officials into giving the cops higher pay and better working conditions. At any moment, a word from him would have triggered a police strike...
Michaels was long opposed, at least in public, to liberalizing New York's rigid abortion law. Last spring his sons and a daughter-in-law cited numerous horror stories about the grim effects of the law on pregnant girls, many of whom they knew personally. They begged him to support a perennial reform bill. Michaels sympathized, but when the bill came up in the legislature last spring, he was prepared to vote "nay"?especially in an election year...