Word: account
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...process of desegregation shall be supervised by federal district courts "because of their proximity to local conditions." These courts will be guided by "equitable principles" and take into account "the public interest" in making the big transition. Yet, "it should go without saying that the vitality of ... constitutional principles cannot be allowed to yield simply because of disagreement with them...
...Scared." When Defendant Flaherty took the stand, he pointed out that he had gone no farther than other sportswriters. But his vivid account of the scene in the dressing room was secondhand; he had not visited the dressing room. Flaherty's lawyers read a deposition from Ex-Champion Joe Louis, who said: "It seemed Nova was scared." How could Louis tell? "Well," he answered, "you look another fighter in the face and you know whether he's afraid from whether he looks...
This novel burns a hole in the Iron Curtain with a moral blowtorch. A white-hot account of the Red tyranny in Hungary, The Ninety and Nine is fired less by skilled prose than searing passion, less by action than ideas. Hungarian-born Author Kovács, a World War II underground fighter and onetime secretary-general of Hungary's National Peasant Party, now works for the Free Europe Committee in New York. Lacking the theoretical brilliance of a Koestler, he nonetheless brings to his grade B Darkness at Noon a fingertip knowledge of the Communist mind in action...
...find your May 16 account of young William Blankenship's death extremely disheartening. Far more tragic than the boy's death is the reaction of his father . . . Mr. Blankenship isn't whipped-at least he had better...
Tito and his abettors . . . will not escape the terrible judgment of their people. They will have to account for their sanguinary crimes, for their repulsive betrayal" (Marshal Bulganin). "The time will come when the people of Yugoslavia will avenge themselves and get rid of Tito's clique" (Khrushchev). "History will give Tito the choice of poison, as was Hitler's case, or the rope, as was Mussolini's case" (Literary Gazette...