Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even before Kasper entered Florida in early March, his cohorts were at work. Fred B. Hockett, a White Citizens Council Organizer in Miami, had been arrested and fined for cross-burning. Moreover, testimony was offered to the effect that Hockett possessed 100 boxes of dynamite, to be exploded at Kasper's orders...
...with my finger in my nose." Then, jaw outthrust, Brewster turned to the Senate's McClellan committee and began reading a 40-minute statement elaborating upon the virtues of himself and his teamsters. "We," said Brewster, "support the Boy Scouts and the Girl Scouts and the Green Cross Safety Organization." By week's end it was clear that the Teamsters' Western charities went even further than that. The union's rank and file had, for example, also helped support Frank Brewster's racehorse stable...
...lonely men of Harvard; Alone, alas, alone, alack, are we! And that's the curse we share, It's the cross we've got to bear For our irrefutable superiority...
Clad in high-collared vests and baggy cotton trousers, the three barefoot Indian musicians sat down cross-legged on an Oriental carpet on the stage of Judson Memorial Hall at Manhattan's Washington Square. Glancing at the drummer to the right of him, Ravi Shankar cradled his sitar in his arms, and with slender, agile fingers began to coax from its steel strings a piercingly plaintive, twangy melody. Beside him the tabla (drum) thrummed and rataplanned a shifting, syncopated beat, and behind him a four-stringed, unfretted lute named the tamboura thinly droned its hypnotic accompaniment. Thus Sitarist Shankar...
...three week interim before final, exams might look suspiciously like time set aside for cramming. In fact, he might think unprincipled professors used these periods to gather up the odds and ends, or the dregs, of their courses, enabling them to stuff their students a little fuller and to cross off the remaining titles on their syllabi. Taking notice of the remarkable number of extracurricular activities at Harvard, and taking human nature into account, he probably would doubt that periods placed at such propitious times were ever used for advanced study in the course, that Fall and Spring term Reading...