Word: damned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...white citizen born in Mississippi and raised in Georgia, I suppose I should tell my friends, "See, them damn niggers ain't fit for freedom." But I can't. Anyone with a shred of conscience cannot read your grippingly honest report without feeling, "There, but for the grace of white skin, go I." People so torn by desperation and racked by self-hatred, to a point where dignity no longer counts, need understanding...
...from voting," Mississippi's infamous Senator Theodore Bilbo used to snort. "What keeps 'em from voting is Section 244 of the Constitution of 1890." That section stipulated that voters−Negro voters, anyway−must be able to interpret a state constitution that, as Bilbo chortled, "damn few white men and no niggers at all can explain...
WOODSTOCK, N.Y., Woodstock Playhouse: Little Mary Sunshine (coy heroine) is threatened (egads) with foreclosure (hiss), but (just in time) her hero comes to the rescue. ANDOVER, N.J., Gristmill Musical Playhouse: Damn Yankees still keeps bringing them in even though the real-life Yankees seem to have gone to the devil...
...glimpse of a woman in a black sweater and light slacks who looked like Jackie going up the Southern Breeze's companionway. All four photographers began shooting. "It was like working down at the Boston Garden," said the A.P.'s J. Walter Green. "You're so damn busy, you don't see the fight." After the visitors were aboard, the newsmen squinted through binoculars. "I looked right in her face," declares Green, "and I thought it was Jackie." Fast Denial. The picture certainly looked like Jackie, and newspapers printed it in good faith. Headlines flared: JACKIE...
...mothers turning on this summertime Santa? Complains one Lynn, Mass., housewife: "I wouldn't mind those trucks if they didn't always come at the wrong time. I just get my two-year-old to sleep in the afternoon when those damn chimes begin to sound." Adds another: "Once the ice cream man has been around, I can't get my children to eat anything. Two fudgesicles and dinner is out the window." Some people do not mind when the ice cream man cometh so much as how. The four-bar Good Humor tune that daily wafts...