Word: jacked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...traveling companions from Oakland to San Francisco were an older professor of psychology, lively and talkative, and two students who had graduated--David Egger and Ellen Maytag. We talked about Jack London, then turned to Ernest Hemingway, and the "lost generation" about which they were singing the praises...
...excursions around the picturesque outskirts of Durham I was accompanied by students of a Negro college, Willy Johnson, the son of a rich tradesman, and Jack Bowles, son of a larger farmer...
...many?" Jack Bowles asked him maliciously. "One for 16 million? And in out state where more than a million Negroes are living, is there even one Negro in the city administration or in the Senate of South Carolina...
...What do you mean 'but?'" Jack Bowles continued the attack. "Maybe you are going to say that this happens only in the southern and "border" states? Or that this is only true of Negroes? Just remember what happened to the Korean-American, Sammy Lee. This athlete twice won gold medals for the U.S.A. in diving at the Olympic Games. The President himself sent him on a tour in the Far East. And why? So he would be an example of the absence of racial discrimination in America. And what happened to him when he came back? Because of the color...
...tell your friends in Russia about Willy, and be sure to add that his opinion is restricted to only a few. Millions of our Negoes are unwilling to endure the shame of segregation," Jack Bowles told...