Word: cross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...single issue of TIME. The small supply that you have allotted to Morocco is sold out the day it reaches the newsstands. In this beautiful but remote place, which is Marrakech, TIME keeps me in touch with the rest of the world. And the other day, having to cross the Atlas Mountains to Taroudant to visit a Moroccan businessman, I was pleased to find on my night table the latest copy of your International edition...
They drove a score of frightened Negroes outside, where a cross was burning brightly in the Alabama night. "You've got to keep these niggers down," the neighbors warned Steve Marshlar. One of them told Steve's sister-in-law: "We're tired of the Catholics running this town." Then the night callers got back in their cars and drove away...
...screamed for the friend to call the police, and grabbed a shotgun. The neighbors rushed in, slugged her and wrested her gun away. She snatched off several of their hoods. "We could kill you for that," one told her. They dragged her outside to watch a cross burning on the front lawn. Mrs. McDanal later reported that they lectured her for using her house "to bring men & women together and to sell whisky," which she denied...
...Atlanta, a bigoted little obstetrician named Samuel Green, the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, was frantically exhorting his Kleagles and Cyclops to mass for a big night of cross-burning and hate-spieling at Stone Mountain next week to prove to everybody that his movement wasn't on the skids. But one Southern governor had denounced the Klan, without suffering for it, as a mob of "hooded hoodlums and sheeted jerks," and in the past year antimasking ordinances had been passed in Atlanta, Columbus and Macon, Ga., Miami and Tallahassee, Fla., and a number of smaller communities...
Very few objections can be raised to the project. Because it would be a toll highway, the 60 to 75 million dollar cost would be assumed by the users. And inasmuch as most of the cross-state travelers will come from other states, the pike would cost Bay Staters almost nothing. When the tolls have paid off the bonds, the road would become completely free...