Word: ay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...since the U.S. Supreme Court's school-desegregation decree have white Southern racists resorted to such brutish mob violence as the terrorism that greeted school opening in Grenada, Miss., last week. A neat, small (pop. 12,000), outwardly placid county seat deep in Faulkner country, Grenada (pronounced Gren-ay-da) had been simmering with racial tension ever since the James Mer edith protest march trooped through town last June...
Without a Sou. At the time of the adventure, Malraux was a 22-year-old cubist poet. He and Clara were very broke, following a highly unartistic attempt to make a killing on the Bourse. Intrigued by archaeology, especially by a little-known Cambodian temple called Bantéay Srei on the way to Angkor Vat, Malraux got permission from the French colonial administration to explore. Off they went first-class-without a sou for the return trip. When they finally found Banteay Srei, says Clara, "It was a kind of Trianon in the jungle...
...Sunday ay-ay-ay, The day before Monday, yeah, I'll be singing my baby a song...
...bathrooms. Guests may not check in or out or pay their bills on the Sabbath. Lights in the lobby are turned on and off automatically by electric clocks, but any other light left on accidentally must burn through the night, since flicking switches is forbidden. Not until Satur ay sundown is the hotel's rigid observance of the law relaxed...
...sweatshirt adorned with a picture of Manolete. At last, El Cordobés put on his sequined jacket of violet silk, and the blonde emerged from the bathroom, where she had been softly crying. He flipped her on the behind with a towel, and she smiled. Then someone shouted, "Ay, Matador!" and it was off to the Plaza in a roar of police motorcycles...