Word: crow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...month-old Negro boycott of Jim Crow buses in Montgomery, Ala., has taught the South a fact of economic life: in regions where most bus passengers are Negroes, the boycott is a powerful economic weapon. Last week in Montgomery a three-judge panel in Federal Court-all judges born and raised in Alabama-gave the boycott a sharp legal edge: the court ruled 2-1 that the city's Jim Crow bus seating violates the 14th Amendment and is unconstitutional...
...Wood (Wis.) Veterans Administration Center. There she found 297 cases, 156 in patients who also had tuberculosis and 141 in those free of TB. There has been a startlingly rapid increase in numbers of cases from 1954 to 1955. From Georgia's Battey State Hospital, Dr. Horace E. Crow reported discovery of a similar (perhaps the same) mystery bacillus in 69 patients...
...purge. Described as "filthy" and "obscene" in journals controlled by Author Fadeyev's union were two survivors of the revolutionary epoch: Satirist Mikhail (The Adventures of an Ape) Zoshchenko and Poetess Anna (The White Flock) Akhmatova. Even Fadeyev, criticized in Pravda, had to eat a little crow. Told to rewrite Young Guard, he said: "I quite agree...
...charge of "Titoism" and missed no opportunity for verbal abuse of Tito himself. Then Big Brother told all good Communists they had to be nice to errant Little Brother Tito-or else. It was Tito's turn, and he demanded Rakosi eat a full portion of crow, and be quick about...
...Birds. In Manhattan, Joseph Albanese was fined $10 in traffic court for unnecessary auto-horn blowing despite his explanation that his pet crow, Oleander, hopped on the steering wheel and tooted the horn...