Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...curses and nonstop Ariel flights of the liberal imagination, most writing on the Negro problem in America makes highly unprofitable reading, in the view of talented Negro Novelist James (Go Tell It on the Mountain) Baldwin. This sheaf of personal essays, written with bitter clarity and uncommon grace, is an effort to retrieve the Negro from the abstractions of the do-gooders and the no-goods...
...debate entirely until the government drafted a new map of electoral districts. With every Deputy's seat at stake, the arguments over the exact boundaries of each district might take months. The French Assembly, which had shown little talent for living, was also showing little grace in dying...
...week's end, Elle dropped all caution and prepared its coup de grace for this week's issue. Charged Helene Lazareff: "A cruel hoax. Mile. Drouet not only thought up all of Minou's poems but we have evidence that she also wrote them herself, in pseudo-childish handwriting...
...country, to be ignominiously deported as an undesirable immigrant or, in the last resort, to be strung up from the nearest lamppost as a renegade, it was you . . . You leave behind a legacy of ... naked hatred among people who were here before you came and who will, by the grace of God, survive the pernicious effects of your ministry...
...gallantly held open the door for his date, and remained there while the rest of the dormitory took advantage of his gesture. Vag later located his girl at one of the eight tables in the pleasantly decorated room. Each girl was standing solemnly behind her chair. "Well, what now? Grace?" he said, trying to stimulate conversation...