Word: meant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first anniversary of the death of Martin Luther King Jr. could have been a day of hope and affirmation. Instead, to millions of black and white Americans last week, it meant a renewal of anxiety. Little, after all, has been done since April 4, 1968, to extirpate racism or to clothe with reality King's dream of social justice. Even so, when brief flurries of violence roiled observances of King's death, they compared in no way to the hideous rioting that swept 168 U.S. communities last year...
...that people are choosing to lead more and more insular existences rather than wanting to help people help themselves? When I read your article on Newark [March 21], I realized only too well what Mayor Addonizio meant by his statement, "America is not prepared to save its cities." He, as well as I, and many others, is aware that some of the nation's wealthiest white bedroom communities come very close to touching Newark-physically. I grew up in Short Hills, N.J., one of the most elite. And I found that after the rioting those who "have" reacted...
...jockeys ambush her and douse her with a bucket of water, a traditional ceremony after an apprentice rider's first win at the Big A. "To me," said Barbara Jo, who during a jockey boycott at Tropical Park had her dressing-room window smashed by a rock, "that meant that I was finally accepted by the jockeys." It was about time. By last week she chalked up an astonishing eleven victories in 22 starts...
...sons" want to do to Father is symbolically kill him. In Feuer's version of history, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which precipitated World War I, reads like this: the young Bosnian student Gavrilo Princip "finally achieved his place as a father-destroyer . . . even though it also meant the destruction of himself and the maiming of European civilization...
...most part, the students merely giggled and answered that the word meant "sexual intercourse." But many of the 42,000 residents of the town questioned Mrs. Timbrook's divine inspiration. She insisted that her lecture's purpose was to prove that the word was "devoid of life and love." Nevertheless, parents besieged the superintendent of schools with irate phone calls and, at hastily convened meetings, vilified Mrs. Timbrook as a "whore" and "a disgrace to womankind...