Word: happen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...children. If they had married normally into the U.S. population at large, probably the gene would have stayed quiescent, with only an infinitesimal chance of sad results. But within a couple of generations, King's descendants began to marry second or third cousins. Eventually, it had to happen: a man who carried the gene married a cousin, of some degree or remove, who also carried it. Their unfortunate offspring inherited a double dose of the bad gene...
...satirists (Looking for the General) writing in the U.S., has brought the joke off. In this novel about Harlem's first year as a nation, Miller mocks blacks, whites, and the whole racial fuss; yet beneath the hilarity is a clear warning: "Laugh at your peril. It could happen." Writing such a seriocomic novel is a feat of literary acrobatics, but Miller does not lose his balance...
...last week's meeting, Kenneth Guscott, president of the Boston branch of the National Association of Colored People, urged that the group be made up of both Negroes and whites. "It should encompass all the leaders of the community. Then if anything should happen, the police can call upon responsible citizens for aid. We do not want another Harlem," he said...
...country about race relations. National shock and disgust had erupted after Birmingham, but now a different and sometimes bewildered sense of trouble crept through the public consciousness. Perhaps because many minds had long equated the South with racial violence, there was something terrifying about the discovery that it could happen on a large scale in the North...
Kenneth Guscott, president of the Boston branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, added: "This group should not be made up of only Negroes, but rather Negroes and whites. It should encompass all the leaders of the community. Then if anything should happen, the police can call upon responsible citizens for aid. We do not want another Harlem...