Word: clings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Oklahoma, trying to cling to Jim Crow and still satisfy the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Sipuel case (TIME, Jan. 26), had set up a "separate but equal" law school for Negroes in Oklahoma City. Only one student-Theophilus M. Roberts, a waiter at the Oklahoma Club-enrolled. Negro leaders in the segregation fight boycotted the school (so did Ada Sipuel) and turned the heat on Roberts. Last week, he quit without ever having cracked a book. Said he: "I've bucked the Church, the fraternal organizations and the man in the street. The pressure...
...Quebec's picturesque Lower Town lies the district of St. Sauveur, a ragged slum in which French Canadians cling to "a mode of life tenaciously wedded to the past and resistant to all progress, obstinately refusing any kind of change for the reason that all change was brought about by outsiders." Unlike the rest of Quebec City's picture-postcard prettiness, St. Sauveur is a wretched place: its proletarian "mulots" are ignorant and desperately poor, its bourgeois "soyeux" (silken ones) often bigoted and pretentious...
...real tragedy in Italy today is the absence of any strong liberal party. The Nenni Socialists must cling to the Communists for survival, whereas those led out of the last Socialist Congress by Saragat have been submerged by papal electioneering. The result is that the United States stands side by side with the Vatican in supporting all anti-Communists per se. It is ironic to observe, moreover, that two years after the war's end, the gains of the neo-Fascists are also the gains of the United States...
...Lanny Ross, radio's perennial juvenile, fared no better with his ballyhooed NBC variety show. Without a microphone to cling to, Lanny faced trouble with his hands (this problem menaces all crooners...
...decision that involved risks and limitations. The chief limitation was that the U.S. as yet had no global foreign policy. There were hosts of issues as yet unresolved. What was to be the future U.S. policy towards Korea and Japan? Was the U.S. to abandon Korea and cling grimly to Japan? Even more important, what would the U.S. do about the front in China...