Word: backstreets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the council was convened for the first time since 1946-to hear its death sentence. Since Europeans objected to its meeting in Pretoria's City Hall, the council squeezed into a stiflingly hot little backstreet meeting room. Said Secretary for Native Affairs Dr. W.J.G. Mears, explaining the council's dissolution: "It has apparently created a sense of frustration in the councilors...
...waited only a few minutes at the designated corner when a most attractive Paraguayan girl came up and greeted me as an old friend. As we walked toward a backstreet café owned by some friends of hers she said she had been given a good description of me and had been instructed to tell me about the opposition movement and the current political situation of terror in Paraguay. Someone in the crowd at the café moved her to grab my arm and hustle me out of the place into a taxi, which we left a block from...
...This is Serious." Air-raid meetings were attended by gay, lighthearted volunteers. At a meeting in an uptown Manhattan high school, citizens giggled at an expert who tried to explain how to blackout streets. Muttered a sad-faced, sad-voiced Frenchman: "How can they laugh? This is serious." Backstreet toughies kidded earnest women block wardens until the tearful and embarrassed women gave up their jobs...