Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most of the boycotts are unorganized, word-of-mouth affairs. Some crop up overnight and wither as swiftly. Others last for weeks or months in the ebb and flow of their effectiveness...
...Washington, Texan Lyndon Johnson, majority leader of the U.S. Senate, felt obliged to announce that he did not "anticipate" that irreconcilable views on racial segregation would split the Democratic Party in 1956. Elsewhere on Capitol Hill another U.S. lawmaker, an owlish, bespectacled man with a dead cigar in his mouth, stared unblinkingly at a visitor and said: "I can tell you that integration will never come to Mississippi. I say there is no basis for compromise...
...confronts the divine with two basic questions: "What can I know about God?" and "How can I know about God?" Like Job, Judaism long ago laid its hand upon its mouth as far as the first question is concerned, and the second has often been buried beneath the weighty Torah interpretations. But in this century, within a few years of each other, three passionate men have sprung up among the Jews to illuminate the question: "How can I know...
...love of Joyce Gary's life is life. Inevitably, bits and pieces of his own have cropped up in his joyous string of novels. Gulley Jimson, the rascally painter of The Horse's Mouth, bore the knowing brush strokes of Gary's three-year try at being an artist in turn-of-the-century Paris and Edinburgh. In Mr. Johnson, still the best novel written about modern Africa, Gary drew on his tours of duty as an officer in British West Africa during and after World War I. In A House of Children, written...
Yale won by playing the same kind of defensive game that Northeastern used to upset the varsity on Tuesday. Play was in the Eli zone most of the time, especially in the last period, yet the Crimson forwards were consistently unable to work the puck in near the mouth of the goal for clear shots...