Word: maying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jail. The thick, booming voice of towering Henry Winston, Negro organizational secretary of the party, topped the uproar: "If your honor pleases, now may I be heard? More than 5,000 Negroes have been lynched in this country for such...
...used to hear . . . 'ancestral voices prophesying war!' But now I am thankful to say I do not hear those voices ... I have a growing hope that by the strength of our united civilization, and by our readiness and preparedness to defend freedom with our lives, we may avert forever the horrible vision of a third world...
...struggled to keep alive, ambitious Juan Lechin gained strength through new or renewed alliances with resurgent elements of the totalitarian M.N.R., with Trotskyist and Communist-line unions. His powerful combine was responsible for much of the pressure that last month forced President Enrique Hertzog to take sick leave (TIME, May...
...protested when workmen dragged Cuauhtémoc from his perch, moved in on the Statue of Columbus (see cut). Their resentment grew when they learned that the Paseo would have a two-foot strip down the middle, planted to nopal and cactus. "These are the only places where pedestrians may now take refuge," screamed El Universal, "and they fill it with cactus...
Margaret herself plainly believes none of it. As a younger girl she may often have longed to call less cynical attention to her large, soft blue eyes and to kick up her heels in freer fashion. As a princess, she can only mock, strictly among friends, and make the best of it. "After all," as one flag-waver remarked while welcoming Margaret to Capri last month, "a king's daughter is still a king's daughter...