Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Democrat Stevenson was leaving no field unplowed in his effort to win the Midwest. Following up his defense of continuing surpluses and his promises of fixed 90%-of-parity price supports made in his major farm speech at Newton. Iowa (TIME, Oct. 1). he rounded out his case (see box) at Oklahoma City, picturing the farmer's lot under the Republicans in terms of despair and suffering. Then he took off for a trip through the South, but by midweek he was back in Missouri, thence to Indiana...
...disfranchisement of Negroes by state constitutional amendments that Mississippi had begun in 1890 and that South Carolina was about to enact when Washington delivered his Atlanta address. Shortly thereafter he urged that the same qualifications for voting be required of whites as of Negroes and that, as the ballot box was closed, the school houses should be opened. These sound suggestions were not followed. By 1910 all the Southern states had adopted constitutional provisions or enacted legislation that disfranchised much larger numbers of Negroes than of whites. At the same time more educational facilities were provided for whites than...
...sparkplugs (or something similar), carry them around the car, and then replace them; the scoreboard rally, which demands a count of every supermarket, etc. on the right and every florist shop, etc. on the left; and the landmark rally, which requires a right (left) turn at every mail box or gas station, or whatever...
Most moving section of the book is that devoted to the hymns (see box). Most puzzling is the strange document called "The War of the Sons of Light and the Sons of Darkness," which seems like a ritual battle out of Revelation. It is filled with precise detail ("The line troops are to be 40 to 50 years of age . . . The officers, too, are to be from 40 to 50 years of age; and all who strip the dead and collect the spoil and clean up the terrain and keep the weapons and prepare the food are to be between...
Politically, Reischauer found a strong and healthy belief in democracy. "Ever since the last war," he maintains, "the Japanese have never doubted that the ballot box would decide the major issues." A higher percentage of people vote in the Japanese elections than do here, and the elected governments now have eleven years of successful rule under their belts...