Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once moderates begin publicly to support the Supreme Court decision as the law of the land, gradualism and moderation will no longer seem like evasive phrases invented by politicians as a substitute for a policy, but will emerge as the only possible means to effect one of the most difficult social adjustments in this country's history. To achieve real integration of races, not only in the South, but throughout the country, will require both a sensitivity and a restraint that have been virtually unknown in the past. But gradualism implies more than the ability not to shout when shouting...
...matter what the NAACP and students do, however, there will be trouble unless outsiders can be kept away from the University. This is difficult if for no other reason than the US highway which bisects the campus...
Events in the South over the past two years have united all Negroes in the common battle to end segregation and discrimination. This Negro solidarity developed almost immediately after May 17, 1954. But it has placed at least one group of Negroes--the teachers--in an extremely difficult, complex situation. Many believe that by pushing for integration, they are pushing themselves right out of their jobs...
...McDonald has not sold the idea of a joint conference to us." But Dave McDonald was jubilant. Actually, for all their apprehensions about joint bargaining, the idea had some attractions for the steelmakers; e.g., in case of deadlock they could present a united employers' front, make it more difficult for the union to negotiate separate agreements and pick them off one by one. By seeming to bow to McDonald's strategy, the steelmen were also boosting the union chief's stock with his men. The industry likes McDonald, a reasonable, conservative unionist, raised by the late Phil...
...rides the tiger Finds it difficult to dismount