Word: grave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Slave v. Grave. Throughout his oratory ran a dark premonition that he would be slain. And with reason. Back in Montgomery, a twelve-stick dynamite bomb had been thrown on his porch, but failed to explode. In Harlem in 1958, a deranged Negro woman stabbed him dangerously near the heart. He had been pummeled and punished by white bullies in many parts of the South. He was hit in the head by a rock thrown in Chicago. When he won the Nobel Prize, Coretta King mused: "For the past ten years, we have lived with the threat of death always...
...back room of a stucco house in the hills of Amman, a grave young Palestinian university student squatted on the floor and told eleven friends that he had just joined a guerrilla unit to fight the Israelis. "Any age, any size, either sex," he said. "It makes no difference. They are on my land, and I shall kill them." In his shell shattered villa overlooking the River Jordan, Citrus Grower Raouf Halabi, 50, a graduate of Beirut's American University, reported proudly that his riverfront groves have become a nightly jumping-off place for raiding parties into Israel...
France's Charles de Gaulle, who wants the Western world to return to the gold standard,* was playing only a slightly different tune from the Red band. He called the present international monetary system "inequitable" and "henceforth inapplicable." Its continuance, he maintained, would "condemn the free world to grave economic, social and political trials." De Gaulle's attitude was understandable. By committing themselves in Washington to the two-tier gold system, the five other members of the Common Market had handed France a remarkable rebuff. They not only flouted their partner's wishes, but did so without...
...conclusion," they said, "that preventive political censorship should be abolished at the present state of development." The mood of the people was euphoric -and solemn. More than 3,000 workers and students trekked in driving snow to the village of Lány outside Prague to visit the grave of ex-Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk, who jumped or was pushed from a window to his death in 1948. The Communists, who have worked ceaselessly to obliterate the democratic patriot's memory, had kept crowds away from the grave for years. While a girl student played a folk melody...
Hamilton went further to discount the possibility of an "armed black revolution," claiming that "riots are not preludes to revolution and the notion of black separatism is not at all pervasive in the ghetto. But the import of riots must be understood in terms of the grave psychological dilemma which blacks in America are breaking out of." Taken to its conclusion, Hamilton's implication is that blacks are through with the self-demeaning black mentality which is reinforced institutionally by the subtle and pervasive racism of which the Kerner Report spoke...