Word: break
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University of Arkansas trustees, Thomas got a phone call warning him that a young Negro war veteran was on his way to apply for admission to the law school. He made the decision to let him in and thereby made Arkansas the first of the old Confederate states to break the college color bar. Subsequently, all of Arkansas' eight tax-supported colleges let down the bars, and by last fall eight towns and cities, other than Little Rock, opened their public schools to Negroes...
Unlike the Caucasian immigrant of an earlier day, a Negro can scarcely ever hope, even in the North, that the white society will really accept him on his human merits. Negroes are more prone than whites to break the laws, rules and customs of society because they are excluded from full membership in it. In gross and subtle ways, from unwritten bans on employing Negroes to the faintly patronizing tone that even liberal-hearted whites take toward them, Negroes are made to feel alien and inferior. This pervasive discrimination holds down capable Negroes at the top of the social ladder...
...Slam enough doors in a man's face, and he may break one of them down," said San Francisco's Negro Deputy City Attorney R. J. Reynolds last week. The way to reduce the percentage of Negro crime, he believes, is to stop slamming the doors, or at least, as a start, give the Negro a new hope that maybe the next door won't be slammed. Spreading the message of that new hope, he says, is a responsibility that Negro leaders will be very glad to assume...
...going to go out and get doubledeck hamburgers and big malted milks and then we'll go to the movies and then we'll have a soda. And then I say, 'And then we'll go home and I'll break every bone in your body.' That's the treacle cutter...
...plot to get Yalies to go to classes, though we would guess that Smithies at nine will be little more enticing than 'Cliffies at nine and attendance might drop. It might be a subtle move leading to an enforcement of parietal rules, though this may be too great a break with tradition. But the scheme is probably less grandiose than these, and is probably just another aspect of Whitney Griswold's cultural uplift. Frankly, we had an affection for the old, gross Yale, the Yale that was proud to be uncouth, and we are sorry...