Word: potful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said to him: "You shouldn't be speaking to me, you know," explained that her compatriots shunned her because she had married a Negro soldier. Bound for his family in the deep South, she had thought, until then, that things would be different in the "melting pot of the world...
...Into a pot bubbling with all sorts of complex plans for postwar Europe, Belgium's exiled Premier Hubert Pierlot last week tossed a proposition as calm as it was simple. His proposition: that Belgium take up where she left off in 1940, with King Leopold on the throne, the prewar Parliament in its seats, the exiled Cabinet in power until it "renders account" and prepares the country for postwar elections...
Black Hopes.' The pot was almost to a boil. In Washington, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and other Negro organizations sat on Attorney General Biddle's doorstep, demanding proper legal backing for the Court's decision. They would keep after him; this was an issue not lightly to be evaded, or easily stalled off. In Dallas, a Negro Baptist preacher filed as a candidate for the Dallas County school board. His alarmed white opponents used paid newspaper ads : "Vote the white ticket straight." In South Carolina, a Negro Citizens Committee raised more than...
Little, democratic Uruguay is a first-class annoyance to big, totalitarian Argentina across the La Plata estuary. Uruguay's irrepressible press takes pot shots at Argentine authoritarians. Uruguayan radio stations fill the air with gay and subversive news of the democratic world...
...Board Chairman, W. L. Mellon, Tom Evans made his way alone. For six years he saved money, like an Alger hero; and played the stockmarket, unlike an Alger hero. Thus he collected $10,000. He wanted to find and buy a family-owned business that had gone to pot. In the down-at-the-heels H. K. Porter Co., in Pittsburgh's slummy Lawrenceville section, he found it. Once a No. 1 builder of industrial locomotives, Porter Co. was down to 40 workers...