Word: barred
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...HATES BRITAIN BECOMES GOVERNOR GENERAL, headlined the Daily Mail, and the Daily Herald printed a front-page editorial protest that the Queen should have to receive "the organizer of South Africa's color bar Police State . . . the man 8,000,000 Africans fear . . . who has preached flogging ever since he became Minister of Justice." Added the New Statesman: "He does not hide his detestation of the British connection and his determination to break it. This man is now to kiss hands, receive the seal of office and thus become the official repository of British honor and approval" in South...
...there are others whose making is a joyful family tradition; one Madrid family lives in an apartment so small that their crèche completely fills it; they haul it up to the ceiling and sleep beneath. There are crèches in churches, in public squares, even in bars-a notable one is located in the English Bar in Nazareth...
...make reference to 'high officials,' 'Administration circles' and the 'well-informed source.' Sometimes the 'well-informed source' is genuinely that, but occasionally it may be nothing more than a colleague at the press-club bar...
...changing; the 'new Englishman' lives in a home with central heating, drinks canned beer or soda pop while watching television (having just eaten a wimpyburger), has corn flakes for breakfast, washes with Lux soap, dries his hands on a paper towel and has an ice-cream bar for a snack...
Crocks of Granite. In Detroit, while fire blazed in the kitchen of Frank Collins' Bar, while the building filled with smoke, while firemen dragged hoses through the barroom and water sloshed on the floor, seven steady customers refused to budge from their bar stools...