Word: hunted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When a woman kidnaped a six-week-old infant from a baby sitter's apartment in Brooklyn a fortnight ago, the police alarm included a detail essential to the hunt for the baby: both the kidnaper and the child were Negroes. But except for the New York Daily News, no Manhattan daily so identified the missing baby. And most of the papers buried the kidnaper's race deep in their stories, while the New York Journal-American described the hunted woman closely from her missing upper teeth to her open-toed shoes, without anywhere mentioning the color...
Closeted with Republican fund raisers, Ike offered some confident advice: "If I had the task of organizing and raising money ... I would say, 'How much happier are you than you were four years ago?' " Then he hurried to the Hunt Armory for his speech, marched into an arena where 10,000 had filled all seats; half as many more were waiting to listen from outside. Introduced by Pennsylvania's campaigning U.S. Senator Jim Duff (see below), "Mamie Eisenhower's husband" apologized that Mamie was kept in Washington by a cold, proceeded to lash Democratic "partisan oratory...
...proud of themselves and of their town. After a history stained by lynching and violence, they had acquired a new sheriff who was outspokenly determined to apply justice equally to blacks and whites. The leading politician, Kerney Woolbright, backed the sheriff's policy. So did Jason Hunt, the town's rich man. Even Bootlegger Jimmy Tallant was willing to accept this manifestation of the "new South"-provided his business was left alone...
Before he dies, Woolbright and Hunt have fled his side, the town has cried for his blood, and Lacey's Negroes have again heard the growls of the lynch mob. The brief reign of the "new South" in Lacey dies also, leaving the survivors with nothing more than bitter knowledge of failure. Author Spencer, who was born and raised in Carrollton, Miss. (pop. 475), has, like many Southern writers, a poet's sense of words. Unlike most, she brings a disciplined mind and an invigorating economy to her third novel. Time and again, an imaginative phrase pins...
...nationwide television-radio address prepared for delivery at a campaign rally at Hunt Armory, Eisenhower swung hard again at his Democratic rival, Adlai Stevenson, on many fronts. He launched a fresh attack on the Stevenson suggestion that Hbomb tests be halted and the military draft be ended, both under certain conditions...