Word: formful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prostrate Form. An organization named STOP (the Committee to Stop This Outrageous Purge) was quickly formed, just as quickly got 9,603 signatures on a petition demanding the ouster of the segregationists. In retaliation, segregationists formed CROSS (the Committee to Retain Our Segregated Schools), which filed its own petition demanding the recall of the moderates...
...behind which the integrationists now move forward." Said Faubus: "When there is an attempt to force something bad or something thought to be bad upon the children of this state, I will resist such force with all my might, and it will pass only by trampling over my prostrate form." Confident that his ability to sway sentiment was as great as ever, Faubus went off on a fishing trip. And last week, while he was gone. Little Rock went to the polls, ousted all three segregationists by margins of 1,500 to 2,500 votes out of 26,000 cast...
...there was money to be made in the storage business. He began building skyscraping wheat bins from Nebraska to Texas, renting them to the U.S. for the surplus wheat it had bought. Garvey's new C-G-F Grain Co. was aided by specific federal subsidy in the form of fast tax write-offs (five years), as good as any granted to defense-plant builders during Korean war mobilization...
Since Oldtime Songwriter Hughie Cannon wrote the lyrics in 1902, singers have been pleading in every form of jazz from ragtime to bop: "Won't you come home, Bill Bailey, won't you come home? Bill...
Despite the fact that they get from France more than they pay back in the form of sugar, rum, coffee and bananas, the islanders are now demanding an ever greater share of the central government's money. They complain that the minimum wages still hang below mainland standards, fret about the population surge that is adding 16,000 people a year to Martinique's current 265,000 (on 385 sq. mi.) and Guadeloupe's 250,000 (on 588 sq. mi.). A potential income source is tourism; the islands offer balmy beaches, inexpensive French champagne and perfume...