Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...idea of a final club that excludes Negroes and all but the least Jewish Jews. Replacing one racial exclusiveness with another, even in the name of a "necessary negritude," appears to me to be one of the saddest side-effects of the civil rights movement. Black nationalism, which may fit Africa but cannot fit the United States, is what the Afro-American Association has symbolized...
...list of top colleges. Yet it gave the free-swinging youth plenty of elbow room. Since Johnson City school was unaccredited and had only eleven grades, Lyndon first had to take a sub-college cram course at San Marcos to qualify, was found fit in just three months, entered in March...
...years, noted Griswold, most state police acted as if they never heard of the Fourth Amendment ban against "unreasonable searches and seizures." Most of them never even used search warrants. In 1949, the court tolerantly ruled (Wolf v. Colorado) that states could enforce the Fourth Amendment as they saw fit. For example, they did not necessarily have to exclude illegally seized evidence (despite the rule to that effect in federal courts since 1914). Yet the states so abused even Wolf that in 1961 the court finally applied the "exclusionary rule" to all states (Mapp v. Ohio). "If a citizen...
...office off Via Veneto one morning last year, his body riddled with bullets, his face scarred with acid. The cops nabbed Farouk's combustible mistress, a honey-blonde Egyptian named Claire Bebawi, and her rich cotton dealer husband Youssef. Each said the other did it: he in a fit of jealousy, said she; she to end the affair, said he. Both were indicted for murder and went on trial together as codefendants...
...most liberal and scientific minds of the Age of Enlightenment. This is the 200th anniversary of the year when his cream-colored earthenware so impressed Queen Charlotte I that she made Wedgwood her court potter and ordered that pearly pottery be called Queen's Ware. The works were fit even for an empress, and Catherine the Great of Russia ordered a Queen's Ware dinner and dessert service of 952 pieces in what was Wedgwood's largest commission...