Word: guttering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first all the worst fears of pessimists seemed justified. In the copper-belt city of Kitwe, Northern Rhodesia's largest (pop. 78,300), angry white mobs swirled through the streets, shrieking curses and obscenities. One European sent an African sprawling in the gutter, gloated, "That's the fourth one I've sorted out tonight." In a Kitwe nightclub, two Africans were quietly having dinner when a white customer walked over and punched one in the jaw. Police urged the bleeding African to press charges. "No, sir," he replied. "They've got to learn, and we must...
...Republicans. "In the operation of any great human organization," he said, "constructive plans and programs must be developed in the great middle road . . . Most people instinctively grow to like the paved highway, and they understand here it is where human progress is achieved. Those that march in the gutter, in the extremes of the right and the left, in the long run are always defeated." He also reminded his fellow Republicans that he was not yet to be relegated to history's scrap heap. Said he meaningfully, "I am still President of the United States for six months...
...Shah's kingdom, and from across the border, Radio Moscow keeps up a steady drumfire of abuse. In his shabby capital of Teheran, a small portion of the population lives in splendor while the rest exist in the squalor of centuries, washing themselves in the open gutter jubes which double as sewers and water mains. In the arid countryside, the poor scrape the soil at wages of 60? a day while absentee landlords flatly refuse to follow the Shah's lead in giving up some of their property to the peasants. In recent years the cost of living...
...Gutter Ball. In Spencerville, Ohio, after bowling an exasperating 109 game, Paul Page marched out of the Lyn Lee Lanes, lofted his ball into the Miami and Erie Canal...
...problems for the good, clean-living, republican American, and Cooper was not always sure-footed in his pathfinding amid the tangled family trees that snarled the moneyed moccasins of the American traveler. Surrounded by aristocrats, he complained touchily that his own family "did not exactly come out of the gutter," but he never accepted the obvious fact that he was invited out for his redskins and not for his blue blood...