Word: content
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Likewise it is probably wise for a Negro not to ask for dormitory accommodations as Miss Lucy did. The more intimate the relations with Negroes, the less palatable they are to white Southerners. For a while, it is better for Negro leaders to be content with a little so that they may gain a lot. In Miss Lucy's case, they wanted everything, and lost...
...heaped praise on the Chinese Communists for their "transformation of China into a mighty industrial power," made only one reference to Mao-but it was a robust one. Mao, he said, is a "distinguished Marxist-Leninist" who has made a "major contribution to Marxist-Leninist theory." Mao appeared content. In the congress' opening speech, he told the 1,122 party stalwarts: "We must never become arrogant and complacent . . . Humility helps one make progress, whereas conceit makes one blind...
...city, garlanded with old shoes, an extreme sign of disrespect to Hindus. By noon the mob had forced shops to close. broken the windows of the Indian bank, stoned school buses and stopped all traffic in Bunder Road, Karachi's main street. The East Pakistan legislature, not content with Governor Munshi's apologies, demanded that the governments of India and the U.S. formally ban the book...
...content of the course, Slack said yesterday, is not fixed. "The reading and lectures," he said, "will stem directly from the experiences of the students in contact with the patients and each other." He added that the course was not intended as preparation for professional work...
...while he is certainly a poet of ability, he has not yet reached the stature of one whose second best work is very much sought after. The poems are, however, readable, if not enjoyable. Kozol's opaque bit, "The Lady's Body," has a peculiar melody, but the content is more a hint than a whole for at least one reader...