Word: doorway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next to the Paraguayan embassy's main entrance on bustling Calle Via-monte in downtown Buenos Aires, a small, dark doorway ducks down into a forbidding, grottolike cellar. A bored cop stands guard outside, and some times passers-by stop to stare. For seven years, nine months, two weeks and a few odd days, the cellar has been home to Brothers Juan Carlos Cardoso, 46, and Luis Amadeo Cardoso, 41, making them easily the current champions in that treasured Latin American institution known as political asylum. Only Peru's Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, who fled...
...know if there were any Negroes in the Ark." In pursuit of his obsessions, Beckwith passed out racist pamphlets that he wrote himself, launched such an aggressive recruiting drive for the local white Citizens Council that its officers finally asked him to desist. He also stood in the doorway of Greenwood's bus terminal to block Negroes trying to integrate the facilities...
Thus, while he stood last week in the doorway of the university building in which the students were to register, Wallace was visibly pale and trembly...
There were two separate confrontations between Wallace and the federal officials. In midmorning, Katzenbach rode up in a border patrol car and strode purposefully to the doorway. There Wallace stood waiting. He had a lectern in front of him, a microphone draped from his neck and a swarm of state troopers near by. As Katzenbach reached the spot, Wallace snapped out a crisp command: "Stop...
...revolution increasing in its impetus, President Kennedy last week decided, at long last, to appear on national television with a declaration of his own views about the moral issues involved. The decision to deliver the speech came suddenly, during the interval between Wallace's two stands in the doorway at Tuscaloosa. By broadcast time, all was quiet in Tuscaloosa. But that did not matter. As President Kennedy well knew, the civil rights issue would be around for a long while. And by now the President was beginning to feel the necessity to put before the nation a civil rights...