Word: groundful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vigilantes savagely attacked terrified Negro children as they emerged from school. They trampled Richard Sigh, 12, in the dust, breaking a leg. Another twelve-year-old ran a block-long gauntlet of flailing whites, emerged with bleeding face and torn clothes. Still other Negro youngsters were thrown to the ground and kicked. "That'll teach you, nigger!" grunted one assailant. "Don't come back tomorrow." For good measure, the rowdies pummeled and kicked four white out-of-town newsmen. A pickup truck equipped with a two-way radio helped the mob head off fleeing children. Grenada policemen stood...
...change consists of a quickening of national pride, a new solidity of national spirit, a sense of autonomy and freedom. Ever since the Communist siege of Pleiku in February 1965 galvanized the U.S. into action in the air and an ensuing buildup on the ground, the nations of the crescent have stood up and gone their own way with a new assurance that Chinese Communism need not be the battering wave of the future. There is no longer much talk of the "domino theory," which held that the fall of Viet Nam would be followed in quick succession...
...arrested as a Nazi agent in 1942, spent 14 months in a dusty internment camp at Koffiefontein in the Orange Free State. So extremist were his ideas that not even the Nationalists could stomach them at first. In 1948, the party turned down his application for membership on the ground that he "believed in the authoritarian state principle and advocated the destruction of parties...
...Patient-New-Met's-A-Comin' recitative echoed through the old house more regularly than the Anvil Chorus. At one time or another, sites for a new Met were planned on 49th Street, 57th Street, 59th Street, 63rd Street, 110th Street, Washington Square, on the ground floor of the Seagram Building and underneath the Queensboro Bridge. In 1938, a 3,700-seat theater was actually built in Rockefeller Center to be used by the Met, but when the acoustics proved faulty, the company refused to move in, and it was eventually torn down. Many times blueprints were drawn...
...Paul was converted while riding on the road to Damascus by a sudden vision of the Risen Christ, who ap peared to him in the form of a blinding light that struck him to the ground...