Word: antebellum
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...Cambridge City Council yesterday returned to the leisurely existence of antebellum...
...Here," sniffs one Brahmin observer, "clothes are not status symbols," a fact sustained by the regular appearance on well-bred shoulders of the old orange mink. Atlantans, on the other hand, greet the new elegance with antebellum ardor, consider it out of the question to appear anywhere but at a cocktail party in anything but formal, full-length dress...
Dealer in Everything. Lady Bird* was born in a lonely antebellum brick house near Karnack, Texas, on Dec. 22, 1912. Her mother, Minnie Lee Patillo Taylor, a tall, eccentric woman from an old and aristocratic Alabama family, liked to wear long white dresses and heavy veils. She fussed over food fads, played grand opera endlessly on the phonograph, loved to read the classics aloud to tiny Lady Bird. She scandalized people for miles around by entertaining Negroes in her home, and once even started to write a book about Negro religious practices, called Bio Baptism. Naturally, most folks thought Minnie...
...dignified old executive mansion, with its columned portico reflecting the plantation houses of the antebellum U.S. South, had grown far too small. It sufficed when Tubman first took office in 1944 and Liberia was one of Africa's three independent states and had a budget of scarcely $1,000,000 a year. But today Liberia's budget is some $38 million annually, and its gross national product runs to about $250 million, derived from rubber, iron ore, and vast timber riches that are only beginning to be farmed. As Tubman exchanged visits with the leaders of new African...
Lodged in Two Roads to Sumter is a belief that the problem of the antebellum debate has been preserved intact in modern opinion on civil rights. How can a person hold and express temperate views without risking total defeat of his principles...