Word: lone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Southern universities that have been forced to open their doors to Negroes,* none have reacted so violently-or surrendered so abjectly to mob pressure-as Alabama. All week a storm of hatred swirled around the lone figure of Autherine Juanita Lucy, 26, the first Negro ever admitted to a white public school or university in the state...
...Creation Room-ovalshaped, with murals of the sun and moon. No. 2 is the Garden of Eden, "where," reads a sign, "Adam and Eve made their great decision." Next is the World Room, with murals inspired by Death Valley, which "represents the lone and dreary world, the testing ground." No. 4 is the Terrestrial Room, "fourth stage on the path to celestial glory, the step before entering the Celestial Kingdom." One of its walls opens onto the fifth room decorated as a luxurious sitting room, with well-upholstered chairs and settees, delicate murals and elaborate chandeliers...
...Arms and the Man, April 21, 1894, with the audience clapping and calling for the author, George Bernard Shaw stepped to the footlights to be greeted with one loud, clear "Boo!" Arching his Mephistophelian brows (as red in his 37th year as his beard), G.B.S. addressed himself to the lone dissenter: "My dear fellow, I quite agree with you; but what are we two against so many?" Shaw didn't know it at the time, but he had won himself a slightly pesky pen pal. Within the week, the booer, a brash 20-year-old named Reginald Golding Bright...
...plays, she puts the three-stringed instrument across her lap, then strums out the tune on the top string while the bottom two give off a thin, constant drone. For lonesome songs, she tunes the top string down a third to get a minor mode. Sample: Down in some lone valley, in a lonesome place, Where the wild birds do whistle and their notes do increase, Farewell, pretty Saro, I bid you adieu, But I'll dream of pretty Saro wherever...
Football fans will remember Lewis as varsity wingback. Sidelined during his junior year with a leg injury, Lewis came back this year to score the Crimson's lone touchdown against Yale at New Haven...