Word: crow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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British officialdom welcomed the new U.S. plan and even the anti-Americanism of the Tories thawed slightly. Here and there the Tory press, which had long wanted the U.S. to move "jointly" with Britain in the Middle East, was tempted to crow that the new U.S. position merely paralleled the British line-which contended that Britain had launched its attack against Egypt just to stop the Russians. "As things are now shaping," snapped Beaverbrook's Sunday Express, "we may have [Eisenhower] ordering us back into Egypt . . . I hope the thought of it isn't spoiling his golf game...
...week, the Negro boycott against the Montgomery, Ala. city bus lines came to an end-381 days after it began. The Negroes had won their fight: they rode unsegregated on buses in the Confederacy's birthplace. Desegregation still had a long way to go, but after Montgomery, Jim Crow would never again be quite the same...
...Lake St. John, where he makes his annual duck-hunting excursion. His work seems like play to most people because he has a good time with almost everyone, gently ribbing arrogant, hurried visitors, facetiously stalling intent and flashy wholesalers' "drummers." His laugh sounds more like a caw of a crow than anything else, and there's usually something--whether it's the Red Sox, the "Com'unists," or lazy college students--to caw about around the store...
...their income soared to $41 million and is still climbing fast. Oklahoma's Osage tribe alone took in some $11 million last year, split it into $7,000 packets for the holders of "head rights," i.e., ownership shares of reservation land. Other tribes, such as Montana's Crow and Blackfeet, Colorado's Utes and Utah's Uintah-Ourays, turn all funds over to tribal councils for community projects. Last year Colorado's Southern Ute tribe signed a contract with Blue Cross and Blue Shield for group medical insurance, while New Mexico's Jicarilla Apaches...
...unanimously upheld a district court's ruling that the "separate but equal" doctrine was now as legally dead for segregated public transportation as it had already been declared dead for public schools and public recreational facilities. The effect of the decision: to invalidate Alabama's intrastate Jim Crow bus laws and to set the grounds for invalidating similar laws in eleven other Southern states...