Word: call
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there is nothing to do but call out the troops-after rioting starts. No, I am not shocked at "police brutality"-after rioting starts. But rioting would not start if the Negroes' road to better living were not blocked by so many million white clods-shortsighted, selfish and ill-mannered...
There is Calvin Coolidge, in September 1923, delivering himself of a characteristically terse remark when a U.S. Treasury Department aide brings his first salary check as President of the U.S.: "Call often." And George Bernard Shaw, in December of that year, responding to a request for his sentiment of the season: "Santa Claus be blowed!" Winston Churchill's scornful one-word description of Britain's postwar Labor Government: "Queuetopia." And President Harry Truman, in December 1950, writing to the music critic who had panned his daughter Margaret's singing: "Some day I hope to meet you. When...
...exactitude of some of Adams' landscapes achieve an effect perilously close to Cinerama, as in "Winter Frost, Yosemite." Wellesley, openmouthed before all 20 square feet of "Thunderstorm, the Teton Range and Snake River, Wyoming," could finally say of the uncannily highlighted water only "Well, you can see why they call it the Snake River, all right...
...They call attention to the depth of the problems that large portions of the Negro population still experience in our "Great Society." Riots let the complacent elements of our society know that there are still people who are discriminated against and who live under impossible conditions. Riots show that the legitimate channels of discussion are often either fictional or clogged; they prove that Negroes are still willing to risk their lives in order to be heard...
...cost him support now. Extremists figure that he did not go far enough in the Ole Miss. crisis. Robert F. Kennedy, then the Attorney General, has said that he and Barnett agreed that Barnett could make a short stand and then get out of the way. Mississippi rednecks call it selling out. Charges of financial corruption and old age (he is 69) have further damaged the Barnett cause and leaves U.S. Representative John Bell Williams as the front-running racist...