Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this activity." The speaker at Tulane University Law School was Erwin Griswold, 63, former dean of the Harvard Law School and now U.S. Solicitor General; and he wanted to get one major thought across. "One who contemplates civil disobedience," he said, "should not be surprised and must not be bitter if a criminal conviction ensues. It is part of the Gandhian tradition that the sincerity of the individual's conscience presupposes that the law will punish this assertion of personal principle...
...racial amity they thought they had achieved has dissolved. What seemed reasonably liberal yesterday is denounced as paternalistic today. But if the Memphis papers have been unfairly singled out for attack, the grievances are small enough to have been remedied long ago. The shame is that it took a bitter strike and an assassination to bring them to attention...
Died. Damon Runyon Jr., 49, journeyman journalist (recently city editor of Washington's weekly Examiner), who labored in the shadow cast by his famous father, in 1954 wrote a bitter memoir (Father's Footsteps) about Damon Sr.'s destructive egomania; by his own hand (he leaped from a bridge); in Washington...
...virtually every major German city. Almost everywhere they went, they blockaded and sometimes stoned the local printing plants of conservative Publisher Axel Springer, whose newspapers, notably the mass-circulation Bild-Zeitung, have denounced their restive leftist tendencies. The students also broke store windows, erected barricades across streets and fought bitter pitched battles with police. The violence was worst of all in West Berlin, where a mob of 3,000 young revolutionaries broke almost every lower-floor window in Springer's shiny skyscraper near The Wall and set fire to some 20 delivery trucks. Then, crying "Berlin equals Memphis...
More for Education. With so much at stake, the campaign was bitter, and some violence even broke out briefly last month when gangs of rock-throwing Negro toughs disrupted several United Bahamian rallies. But in the end, Pindling's record was the big issue, and voters had to agree that the chunky, soft-spoken moderate was running the country pretty well. Despite fears that Pindling would stir up racial tensions and frighten business away, the islands have remained calm, and both investment and tourism are on the in crease. The islands' three casinos are packed every night...