Word: darkest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fail to see the real nature of Communism as the mortal foe of everything that we hold dear, of every moral and spiritual value. Too many are still prisoners of the illusion that Communism is, historically speaking, a progressive system . . . extreme liberalism temporarily making bad mistakes. Actually, Communism represents darkest reaction. It is an anti-social system in which there are embedded some of the worst features of savagery, slavery, feudalism and life-sapping exploitation manifested in the industrial revolution of early-day capitalism...
...Darkest Cloud." First up to speak was Attorney General James Plemon Coleman Jr., the massive (6 ft. 2 in., 235 Ibs.) son of a Choctaw County cotton grower. "We will keep the schoolhouses open and we will keep the races separate and we will not keep the state in an uproar," he said...
...Pine. "I cannot serve as governor," cried Barnett, "without the help of Almighty God and the confidence and support of the people of Mississippi. Humility before God and my fellow man is my guide. Segregation is the most serious problem which confronts the people of Mississippi. It is the darkest cloud which has been over us since Reconstruction . . . We shall maintain segregation ... so long as I am governor...
...slacks and white sweater. A thousand welcomers cheered. Unashamedly, the weary man wept. Jack Fleck, 32, a week after leaving Davenport as one of the nation's most obscure golf pros, was home as the city's No. 1 citizen -rocketed from nowhere to glory as the darkest horse ever to win the U.S. Open golf championship (TIME, June 27). Mopping his tears, Hero Fleck told his greeters: "It's been a long, tough week, and it looks like I have a tougher one ahead. I can't go into hiding...
...distant sound about it. The diehard majority of British settlers is sure to oppose it, and to try to sabotage any attempt at implementation; the settlers can say, with reason, that conditions for peaceful transfer of land between races do not now exist. But some day soon in darkest East Africa, a start must somehow be made; something new must be offered the Africans in place of blood-cults and drums, prejudice and pangas flashing in the night...