Word: gauntlet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will have segregation in this state by lawful and peaceful means," said Florida's Governor LeRoy Collins, 47, as he campaigned his way through a gauntlet of bigotry set up by his rivals for the Democratic nomination for governor. "We will not have our state torn asunder by rioting and disorder and violence. If you want a governor who is going to seek to have white people hating colored people, and colored people hating white people, then you do not want LeRoy Collins...
...created enough turmoil without establishing an overt relationship with Russia. But because of its independence, Harvard is the most logical institution to initiate cultural trade. State universities, for the most part under the control of conservative state legislatures, are certainly in no position to take up the Russian gauntlet. For Harvard, on the other hand, a visiting professorship from Moscow could prove to be quite a coup, not only as an assertion of a rational approach to the Communistic threat, but as a valuable addition to the Cambridge community...
...buildings in Pretoria. They were members of the Women's Defense of the Constitution League. In the two months since, the few have grown to 20,000 members in 200 towns. Whenever a Minister arrived at a public ceremony, 40 or 50 women gathered and formed a silent gauntlet. When one Cabinet Minister flew from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth to Durban to Johannesburg, Black Sashers were on hand. 50 strong, at each airport to give him a grim, silent greeting...
...Foolish Virgins." Slowly, under the women's blank stares, government officials resorted to defensive measures. At a ceremonial opening of a police barracks, Minister of Justice C. R. Swart scrambled over a fence to avoid walking through the Black Sashers' gauntlet. Ministers took to concealing their movements, ducking through side doors, arriving at parties or weddings without warning, buying theater tickets under false names, asking meeting organizers not to announce scheduled speeches. Nothing helped. The women were always waiting. The government was goaded into irritable complaint. "Weeping Winnies," one Minister called them, and Prime Minister Strydom himself gibed...
...India rubber ball into a netted goal, 6 ft. square. The ball can be carried, thrown or batted with the crosse (lacrosse stick); there is no rule against kicking it either. The rugged character who breaks for the goal while cradling the ball in his stick runs a gauntlet of swinging sticks. Sooner or later he is sure to hear the loud battle cry: "Deck him!" For, by and large, body checking is also perfectly legal...