Word: blazed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gradualism implies one other attribute, more perhaps of mind than of policy. It is one often overlooked by Northern Crusaders who want to ride off on charger--whether black or white--and blaze a trail for The Cause of Integration. And this is that the North, too, has its racial problem. True, it is somewhat hidden behind residential segregation or unwritten custom, but it is just as real, and just as wrong. The problem becomes more apparent when one takes a look at the statistics of the very few Northern Negroes who are adequately prepared for college or who have...
...India, the land of Gandhi's satyagraha (peaceful soul force), a tide of violence was on the rise. Never far be neath the surface since January's Bombay riots, in which hundreds of people were killed, it broke again with a sudden and terrible fury in the blaze of India's consuming summer heat...
Shivering spectators applauded, the police band whanged away for all it was worth. Any kind of action helped cut the chill of Tokyo's clammy, cavernous Metropolitan Gymnasium. Then the contestants, some 150 table-tennis players from 16 different countries, marched in, a radiant blaze of uniforms under the bright lights. Any color except white was allowed at the 23rd World Championship
...aghast. "I would have sent for a duke from Vienna," her mother apologizes, "but there was no time . . . You'll wear gloves, of course, darling-long ones." Even with gloves, the tutor is too hot to handle. He sets the princess on fire, and by the time the blaze is finally under control, the rest of the flimsy plot has gone pleasantly up in smoke...
John W. Reboul '59 discovered the blaze and turned in the alarm. He and David L. Gunn '59 grabbed fire extinguishers and ran to the fire. The first spraying brought the fire under control and the second reduced it to a pile of embers...