Word: crows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Delhi gowned in a gay red and yellow sari. "I am not the least surprised," she told newsmen, though many observers had feared that her decision to hold elections a full year ahead of schedule was a dangerous gamble. Those who predicted her defeat, she suggested, might "eat crow." In truth, the victory was far beyond the expectations of even her most optimistic advisers. Nobody expected Indira to be defeated, but some figured that she would fall short of a 261-seat majority and be compelled to form a coalition with the Moscow-oriented Communist Party of India...
Against this accumulation one sees the Indians' dwindling hopes, illuminated by flashes of courage and desperate efforts to res;st slow annihilation. There were the brilliantly waged wars of chiefs Red Cloud. Little Crow. Crazy Horse and Gall, as well as stoic efforts to save their people by Sitting Bull and Black Kettle...
...hate an "uppity" woman; they also hate an "aggressive" woman. Ours has been a Jane Crow society for several thousands of years, and the master group always fears its chattels more than any foreign enemy. When one's inferior status is taken for granted, any attempt on that person's part to assert equality will be regarded as an act of aggression. But does anything in the present situation suggest a complete reversal of female and male roles in our society? Is it likely, for in stance, that women will become the chief breadwinners while men perform domestic...
...House of Representatives: "Ideologically there is no change. We've had a working majority consistently on the key issues of foreign policy and defense. The loss of seats makes no difference." The Democrats, he conceded, "have a right to crow a bit" about the governorships-but he proceeded to play down any effect that Democratic success might have in 1972. "I have yet to see a popular Governor pull in a President," he said. "In 1960 the Republicans had 14 Governors. I carried 26 states -I carried the two biggest with Democratic Governors, lost the two biggest with Republican...
...editorship of Negro Digest. The publication had been founded in 1942 as a carbon copy of the Reader's Digest, just as Ebony imitated LIFE, and Jet, another Johnson publication, was a black substitute for Coronet. Despite such well-Digested features as "My Most Humiliating Jim Crow Experience," the imitation collapsed in 1951. To keep abreast of the new black militancy, Johnson revived it ten years later and turned it over to Fuller...