Word: crow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When she refused to sit in the Jim Crow section of a Norfolk-Baltimore bus, Irene Morgan, a Negro, was thrown out and fined $10. Virginia's highest court upheld the action. But an appeal was made to the U.S. Supreme Court. This week seven nimble Justices ducked the racial question and settled everything on the basis of comfortable traveling...
...states,* they noted, have Jim Crow laws. Eighteen states specifically forbid segregation. Said Justice Reed, of Kentucky: segregation imposes an undue burden on interstate commerce. In other words, it is too much trouble to have bus riders changing seats as buses roll from one state to another. The Justices held that segregation on interstate buses is illegal...
Through the pictures, the ex-captain hopes to make an educational film with a new perspective on state capitals and other historic spots for the benefit of school children and for the inspiration of other amateur fliers who might want to follow the crow-line route...
Similes and metaphors romp hither & yon ("Here I am like a crow, circling, circling around and around, circling and cawing, cawing as I swoop in a downward arc to sink my teeth into the same old dilemma"). And, as ever, at the dip of a rambling pen, the characteristic Farrell brashness melts into oleomargarine
...their boats to foreign nations, buying the catch at one cent a pound below Boston prices. But at week's end, best bet was that labor and management would get together in an armed truce to take up the defense against the foreign invasion. To Boston fishermen, even crow makes better eating than foreign...