Word: condemned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dare to speak so self-righteously of blind hate and prejudice in conflict with the law, and in the same breath condemn a whole county, who had never heard of Emmett Till until a body was found in the river, just because you didn't like the verdict of the jury . . . Any Negro or white from anywhere in the world knows it is wrong to roll his eyes, whistle lewdly, make obscene remarks, and sling an innocent lady around as if she were a barmaid. Is it justice to make a hero of an immoral Negro? TIME could...
Many Southerners would hasten to condemn such a marking system as unfair. "Missouri has none of the problems of desegregation which shackle us," they would say. "It is a border state. Even in its big cities, like St. Louis, the proportion of white to colored children is still large. How would you like to send your child to a Mississippi school, where the Negro children far outnumber the white...
...contest over the A.C.U.'s name were being placed in romance magazines (Life Romances, Romance Confessions), comic books (Lovers, My Own Romance, Diary Confessions), confidential magazines and other pulps with sexy or lurid themes and pictures. Shocked, he resigned from the A.C.U., took to his pulpit to condemn the contest as "barely legal, hardly legitimate and highly unethical...
...their arguments about "tattling," defenders of those who refuse to inform have confused the moral issue. Many people would condemn telling on a fellow student seen cheating in an examination. On the other hand, however, probably few would hesitate to reveal someone caught stealing. The difference in the two situations is, of course, a matter of degree. But the former involved moral hesitation on the part of the informer, while the latter is simple case of application of accepted standards of justice. Recent discussions have placed communism and communistic activities in the second category. The Association of American Universities...
Safe, Safer? The more the authorities congratulated themselves on the new tests, the more (by implication, at least) did they condemn the old. PHS's Dr. James Shannon said that the revisions provide "more frequent and sensitive testing on what we now believe to be a more rational basis." Surgeon General Leonard Scheele called it "making a safe vaccine safer...