Word: crowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, the seated figure of Abraham Lincoln broods over the capital of the U.S., where Jim Crow is the rule, where Negroes are barred from downtown hotels and restaurants, segregated at movies and barred from the city's only legitimate theater. Washington's customs are only a shade less Southern than the South...
Winthrop nosed out the Dunster eight by about the width of a dirty sweat sock yesterday in the most closely contested intramural crew heat of the day. The margin of victory was so small that even the winning crow, clocked at 4:28, was in some doubt as to which shell had crossed the line first...
...Odds. He had also revised the odds on the whole Republican sweepstakes. MacArthur's poor showing let the air out of the MacArthur balloon with a sudden, dismal swoosh. Tom Dewey was worse off than if he had never shown up at all. Taftmen had something to crow about. Not only had Dewey's prestige been dented, but MacArthur strength, they hoped, would now flow their...
Randolph demanded abolition of all racial discrimination in the armed services and under U.M.T. He minced no words: "To the rank-&-file Negro in World War II, Hitler's racism posed a sufficient threat for him to submit to the Jim Crow Army abuses. But this factor ... is not present in the power struggle between Stalin and the U.S. . . . Since we cannot obtain an adequate congressional forum for our grievances, we have no other recourse...
...Wallace offered his own estimate of the proper size of the Army: "Perhaps a million men." Reminded that Defense Secretary James Forrestal had asked for only 782,000, Wallace ate crow-without choking on any feathers. "That was a figure I pulled out of the air," he said...