Word: closed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Macon Theater was the first major business to close its doors-to both its "separate but equal" wings. For food, Negroes queued up at small Negro-owned markets or shared rides to neighboring Auburn and Columbus. Tuskegee's Fortune Fish Market shut down. Then Cooper's Market, on the town square, folded, along with a Texaco service station and the David Lee Clothing Store. White clerks began counting their days at idle five-and-ten counters. Some clerks lost their jobs. Merchants advertised special sales, open credit, looked in vain for expected "sympathy motorcades" of white shoppers from...
Kills him, he is holding stomach, laughing. Someone in press behind says "attaboy." Nikita is talking to me, also sort of for benefit of Bulganin, who is leaning in, enjoying it all. We are all pushed together close. Nikita's eyes all crinkled up, he looks like real happy peasant. Holds hand up in protest. Snap, snap...
...later years, though still a Communist, Dery turned the power of his pen against bloodthirsty Stalinism, became a close adviser of the moderate Imre Nagy. As a leader of the potent Writers' Union, he was a powerful voice behind the revolution that brought Khrushchev's tanks rumbling into Hungary last year...
...jaywalking. Scarcely was this out of his mouth when, crossing a street with the green light in his favor, Truman almost got mowed down by a car rushing a semaphore. The reporters yelled at the driver, but Harry was too involved in his street lecture to notice the close shave...
Already Gordon Feehan, alias Frank Gordon, can see a few small signs of bus column's influence in his adopted city. "In five or six of the best places, you can get something very close to the pristine martini by asking for a 'Frank Gordon Martini,' " he chuckles. "But nothing much can be done about the steaks, I'm afraid...