Word: crow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world's only hope for peace; 2) as the father of three children, he could not afford to give up his U.N. post for the lower-salaried State Department job. But to a reporter he gave a more explicit explanation: "It is well known that there is Jim Crow in Washington. It is equally well known that no Negro finds Jim Crow congenial. I am a Negro...
...Cadillac, Pullman and Jim Crow coach last week, 134 Negro businessmen journeyed from 27 states to the campus of Alabama's Tuskegee Institute. They were delegates to the 50th annual convention of the National Negro Business League, founded by Booker T. Washington in 1900 to advance the cause of Negroes in business. While the businessmen naturally discussed the future, they also debated how well they had done in the past 50 years...
Recent coaching shifts have brought Cleo O'Donnell, captain of the 1946 football team, back to Cambridge as varsity basketball coach at M.I.T. and have sent a Princeton crow coach to Yale...
...Look at the Record. A Democratic line was also shaping up, but until there were military victories to crow over, it was curiously defensive. It consisted in arguing that the records of Republicans on defense appropriations, foreign programs, Korean aid would not bear very close scrutiny: the Democrats might not have done enough, but they might have done more had not the Republicans so often opposed what the Democrats...
...pavilion's better half was devoted to John Marin, a wry, shy old crow of a man who paints nature as knowingly as Winslow Homer and with even greater freedom (TIME, Jan. 9). As Washington's Duncan Phillips put it in the exhibition catalogue, Marin "is one of the most gifted and important painters since Cezanne and perhaps the best of all masters of watercolor. An individualist and mostly self-taught and indifferent to theories, he sought at the outset of his career for abbreviated personal symbols of color and line-a green triangle for a pine...