Word: hood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...committed unpardonable criminal acts has been exploited by unfriendly national news media." They also included 41 Mississippi Negroes, telling of the civil rights abuses they have suffered in their native state. But the plight of Negroes in Mississippi was perhaps most strikingly illustrated by a white segregationist: G. H. Hood, voting registrar of Humphreys County in the western part of Mississippi...
That county's 12,600 Negroes comprise two-thirds of its population, but not a single one is registered to vote. Since Hood, a balding man with a dark scowl, became registrar in 1960, only 16 Negroes have even bothered to try. As elsewhere in Mississippi, the most effective block to Negro registration is a state law requiring that any prospective voter read and interpret to the satisfaction of registrars one of the 286 sections of the state constitution. It is the registrar, of course, who picks the section for the test...
Harriman now becomes an ambassador at large, an amorphous position that the White House defined as "handling specific high-level assignments in the department and abroad." To take Mann's place at State, but not as a White House assistant, Johnson picked Jack Hood Vaughn, 44, who is currently the U.S. Ambassador to Panama and has spent most of the last 16 years in Latin American jobs...
...vice president. Boston's clubs, all private, afford all manner of excellent courts, ranging from the green composition (at the Brookline Country Club) to cork (Longwood) to clay (Dedham Country and Polo Club). The best setup of all: the three composition courts, sheltered by a translucent, plastic Quonset hood, opened last fall at Harvard...
Toward the rear of the hall sit the service club members and the rah-rah crowd, "the squares who really believe in student government." Other tribes are the Saracens, who include a small motorcycling hood element; the clowns, a group of practical jokers who wear Mickey Mouse shirts to signify that all human existence is fraudulent; the intellectuals, who lounge on the steps of the administration building as the rest of the student body speculates over whether the long-haired girls among them are professional virgins or real swingers; and an amorphous crowd that defies classification by declaring unanimously...