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Word: crows (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crow? a CROW? No, no, no, no, no, my goodness no, not a crow at all. They emit a beautiful sound, a sort of kissing sound-chwink, chwink-which a crow cannot even approach. Pity is that they do it right on my window sill at dawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: I Have Never Seen a More Lucid, More Lonely, Better Balanced Mad Mind Than Mine: Nabokov | 5/23/1969 | See Source »

Defying Jim Crow. No man seemed better fitted to head C.C.N.Y. than Buell Gallagher, who took the job in 1952. An ordained Congregational minister, he had spent ten years as president of Alabama's predominantly Negro Talladega College, where "we lived together, Negroes and whites, without any distinction, defying Jim Crow." He had later taught ethics in California and served as assistant U.S. Commissioner of Education. As a scholar, administrator and civil libertarian, Gallagher zealously defended C.C.N.Y.'s academic excellence and fought hard to meet the rising educational aspirations of the city's growing Negro and Puerto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Retreat of a Reconciler | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

...people have already seen Steve McQueen in Bullitt, and the lines are still long. A house specialty of Le Drug Store, now ten years old and still In, is an ice cream sundae with chocolate sauce and a shot of bourbon. They call the result "Coupe Old Crow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: FRANCE ENTERS A NEW ERA | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

...Crow Revisited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE DILEMMA OF BLACK STUDIES | 5/2/1969 | See Source »

...Advancement of Colored People, warned last winter: "If some white Americans should accede officially to the call for separate dormitories and autonomous racial schools, there will be court action to determine anyone's right to use public tax funds to set up what are, patently, Jim Crow schools." Sure enough, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare last month threatened to withhold federal funds from Ohio's Antioch College unless the school desegregates its blacks-only Afro-American Studies Institute, which opened last fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE DILEMMA OF BLACK STUDIES | 5/2/1969 | See Source »

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