Word: locusts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...college, many Northern students have taken the stand that introduction of the new plan would not be worth the disturbance it would cause. This, in itself, is not an argument but a weak, defensive stall. The problem of color discrimination will not vanish in time like a seven-year locust; instead its pressure will grow more and more as Negroes contribute to the preservation of the four freedoms. Princeton, far from being a pioneer, would be one of the last Northern universities to fall in line; and the only means of proving to a Southern contingent that color presents...
Endicott Peabody, 2d, Syracuse, N. Y.; John H. Powel, Providence, R. I.; Fred K. Queen, Needham, Heights; Geraldyn L. Redmond, Locust Valley, L. I., N. Y.; Roger P. Stokey, Atlanta, Ga.; John J. Sullivan, Jr., Cliftondale; Roger E. Tatton, Maplewood, N. J.; George R. Wadleigh, Jamestown, R. I.; William Wesselhoeft, Boston; Norman H. Whitehead, Jr., Providence, R. I.; Gerald Whitehead, Jr., Providence, R. I.; Greenwich, Conn.; Donald B. Wilson, Winchester; Edwin T. Witherby, Jr., Boston; and William M. Wood, Louisville...
...came back from overseas with the rank of Lieut. Commander and the Navy Cross to wear on his blouse. He had been one of the sparkplugs of that amazing aggregation of young men known as the Yale Unit, who trained for naval flying service near his home in Locust Valley...
...hero of this exciting novel is not human. Its hero is a storm. This storm lived twelve days. It became as large, before it was done, as the U.S. Its snows and rains and brutal airs brought death directly to 14 people, indirectly to hundreds; destroyed billions of locust eggs and averted a plague; ended a drought, flooded a valley, threatened the city of Sacramento; endangered an airplane, stalled a crack train. Before it died it gave birth to another storm which, in its ripeness, did spectacular work in New York City. In its birth, its life, its reproduction...
...mobs of Kurds, as warlike as the royal bootsman himself and the finest-physiqued men in the Middle East. The Shah had imported them in large numbers to work on the roads. Says an Arab proverb: There are three plagues in the world-the Kurd, the rat and the locust...