Word: make
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Neither passionate proddings by Northerners nor desperate defiance by Southerners have swayed Dwight Eisenhower in his refusal to make a moral crusade out of the civil rights issue. The President's bedrock position: the law must be obeyed. Last week the Administration sent to Congress a civil rights bill that is even more temperate in its use of law than its 1957 version. Notably missing: the celebrated Title III of the 1957 bill that would have empowered the Attorney General to file suits on behalf of citizens deprived of civil rights,* an omission seeming to indicate that the President...
...flesh," said Dick Neuberger, "be it Republican or Democrat, rich banker or poorly paid college professor. I think now it would be almost impossible to get angry at someone over a political issue. And it doesn't make any difference any more if my wife squeezes toothpaste from the top or the bottom, if the biscuits are burned, or if the living room is cluttered. It isn't true, as you might believe by listening to the speeches and excitement of political conventions, that one party has all the answers and that members of the other party...
...leather-jacketed teenager, and reporters' pencils scribbled. But Virginia's Governor had not made riots respectable. Negro and white pupils solemnly waited for the doors to open, entered in orderly fashion to register for the new term. By week's end white youngsters were cautiously making friends with the newcomers, and all were at work to make up time lost since Governor Almond closed the school in September...
...name to a coin of purest gold, a kind of grass, and a species of hen. Among them was a young Frenchman named René Caillé, who, dressed as an Arab, talked of his captivity by the Egyptians, was accepted as a Moslem and was able to make his famed journey safely to Timbuktu. After him other Frenchmen came, and eventually, by the "rules of the game,"*laid down by the Berlin Conference of 1884-85 for spreading civilization throughout darkest Africa, French hegemony over the area was recognized. The "scramble for Africa" was on, and there was little...
...cadre as only "a first step in an irreversible process." He even went to Paris to discuss "the next step," and when told that the new law clearly defined Guinea's place, snapped: "We are not here to be told what the law is. We are here to make...