Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were surprised to find no segregation in places of business. Editor J. Clark Samuel of Massachusetts' Foxboro Reporter was struck by "fine colored schools" and the sight of Negroes and whites "living in compatibility." Publisher John C. Bond of Massachusetts' Rockland Standard noted "a real effort to lift the level of the Negro educationally...
Radhakrishnan's interpretation of Karma, says Dr. Moses, "is of tremendous practical significance. It comes to undergird the many efforts that are being made by the government and the people of India to lift the fallen, to remove untouchability and in general to help the less fortunate to help himself...
...subject that a South African writer like 32-year-old Nadine Gordimer (The Lying Days) can no more evade than a tongue can skirt a newly empty tooth socket. Author Gordimer's tactic is to blanket both races in a fog of routinely benevolent relationships and then lift it suddenly, revealing the complacent whites standing on the edge of an emotional abyss. A kindly farming couple find a strange black boy dead of pneumonia. He proves to be an out-of-bounds native, and they suddenly learn that for months their farmhands have been smuggling fellow blacks into Johannesburg...
...Then, his program had promise of settling the subversive issue fairly and efficiently. Because he was a military hero honored with deep national affection, it was hoped that he could not only overcome McCarthy-inspired hysteria with the force of his moral leadership, but also that he could lift government service from the level at which Truman's stubborn devotion to his political friends had left it. Public criticism and court decisions have since forced the Administration to soften some of its initial harsh policies, but the fact remains that the President, like his predecessor, has failed...
...first announced by Britain's Sir Anthony Eden and elaborated by Dulles, the plan had been a challenge backed by the threat of detours around the canal, a sea lift of Western Hemisphere oil, and probably a complaint to the U.N. But, from the moment of his arrival in London, Dulles found only the British and French enthusiastic for this extreme potential of the users' idea-and they were bothered by the realization that the most that they could expect from the U.S. to defray the heavy cost of detour would be loans...