Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only effective approach to the integration problem seems to be a pragmatic one. Neither a flabby gradualism nor the use of federal troops can achieve a humane and realistic answer to this emotion-charged issue. Instead, the NAACP should move as fast as it can--as fast as particular local conditions will allow. Gradualism, which has become the off-the-hook byword in a presidential campaign, must not assume that because resistance is strong in some areas and the process will be slow, the integration everywhere in the South should not be rushed...
...HAVEN, May 14--If one may believe the old saw about not judging books by their covers, one can certainly extend this adage to the realm of tennis matches, and yesterday's Harvard-Yale contest in particular. The Crimson thumped the Elis, 11 to 4, in over-all match score, but things were not quite as clear cut as one might suppose...
...Over a five-year period the number of Americans living alone has increased by one-third. "Most of the persons living alone were women and, in particular, widows. There were twice as many women as men living alone...
...typical and skillful Barkley rewrite of a reference to fit his particular point. The actual phrase (Psalms 84:10): "I had rather be a doorkeeper in the House of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness...
Crankshaw provides vivid portraits of the top Gestapo men, in particular Himmler, whose mild, chinless exterior concealed a capable administrator, a ruthless intriguer, and the greatest mass murderer of all time. Towards the end of World War II, ambitious for absolute power, Himmler made the mistake of reaching out for just one more life. But that life was Hitler's; Himmler took potassium cyanide. Gestapo is a bold and worthwhile attempt to understand something of these monstrous men and of their strange decade, but in fact it explains very little. The mass of evidence in the Nürnbergr...