Word: crow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Symbol of Failure. One day last week, the coffinmaker stood before a crowd in Potsdam's Platz der Nationen. At 60, he is a sturdy, thick-bodied man, with thinning brown hair and dark eyes that dart busily above pouches of crow's feet. A mustache shades his upper lip, and a goatee bobs from the point of his chin in disarming capriciousness. It is much like Lenin's goatee-a comparison Walter Ulbricht has long encouraged, for most of his life he has dreamed of becoming Germany's Lenin, the triumphant father and leader...
...three-year-old law, which compels segregation of blacks, browns and whites. Under the law, 70,000 blacks and 22,000 Indians, many of them prosperous shopkeepers, will be ejected from their homes and stores in downtown Johannesburg and moved, without a penny's compensation, to Jim Crow shantytowns far away from the white suburbs...
Italy gave the world Pagliacci, the story of a man who laughs even in the face of tragedy. But the sharp, austere features of De Gasperi (cartoonists like to depict him as a wise, great-beaked black crow with lively eyes behind huge spectacles) remain glum even in moments of pleasure, and only his intense eyes glow. He has no notable administrative talent, and economists have been heard to mutter that he sometimes seems to be "an economic illiterate." He wears his imperfections humbly, like a suit of well-worn clothing, as if to suggest that attempting to discard them...
...commanding officer of the WAG, Mrs. Hobby tolerated no Jim Crow in training the first class of WAC officers. In fact it was actually through this laudable policy that she becomes the first of the "top brass" to integrate by order...
...Turning from defense of Old Glory to defense of Jim Crow, the Daughters discovered their lease to a Washington auditorium, Constitution Hall. DAR rule has taught many Negroes that the Hall is an exclusive place. Two time loser Hazel Scott, colored wife of Representative Powell, found that the Daughters didn't like her kind of singing. While few negroes have similarly tried twice, the Hall has been forbidden ground to over fifteen colored entertainers in the last five years, and just to prove that they do not discriminate only against the entertainment industry, the Daughters ejected an Ethiopian Minister...