Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another sense, the U.S. had earned the new regard by its own conduct. In time of crisis and threat of World War III, President Eisenhower had cast U.S. policy in a role to reflect the U.S.'s basic character-its insistence on justice, its desire for friendship, and its hatred of aggression and brutality...
...town's mill owners give the motivation, "The white workers and the coloured workers must not unite against us." Against this backdrop, the four children begin their friendship. One of the group, Billy, asks his teacher," "Miss Houghton, are white and black people brothers...
...story ends with friendship broken. Two conclusions are drawn in the exercises after the installments. "In the United States today race hatred is very strong." The second conclusion, is formulated in the last line of the story: "People of different races can live and work happily together in our country, because our country is a Socialist country...
...elected the man who discussed those issues: professorial Democratic Senator Wrayne Morse (who was also pretty good at the country-crossroads campaign once he got the hang of it). In Colorado. Republican Dan Thornton did little besides sashay around in cowboy boots and talk about his (very valid) friendship with Ike. But voters remembered that Texasborn Dan Thornton spends much of his time away from Colorado and that, as governor, he had tried to revise the bookkeeping on Colorado's old-age-pension system. They sent Democrat John Carroll, plain-spoken and obviously homegrown, to the Senate...
...exile in England. His escort on that melancholy trip is a young British war hero just starting out in the colonial service. As the flight begins, the two young men hate each other, but before they land at London in a blaze of press notoriety, there is something of friendship between the two. The young Briton confides that he is about to be married. "A white girl?" cracks Dinamaula. Both laugh, and in their laughter Author Monsarrat hears hope for the future...