Word: purgee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Simultaneously, he took his crusade to the people. Addressing the American Mothers' Committee convention in Manhattan, he implored: "When you go back to your own communities, let your radio stations know that you are behind this campaign. Your support at the grass-roots level will go a very long...
Byzantine Bickering. Arriving at Athens' Metropolis Cathedral for the enthronement ceremony, the new primate was wildly cheered by crowds shouting "Axios! Axios! [Worthy! Worthy!]." In his installation address, he pledged a sweeping reformation for the Greek church. Referring to moral scandals that have rocked the hierarchy, he vowed to...
Soon afterward charges by General George Grivas, the Greek army commander on Cyprus, shook the Papandreou government like a row of fig trees in a thunderstorm. Grivas said that he had uncovered a plot on Cyprus in which a group of junior officers were plotting to overthrow the monarchy, purge...
Instant Negritude. Among the chosen Negroes who are not entirely uncritical of the fact that colleges now covet them, Cecilia McDaniel, an A student in Winston-Salem, N.C., sees her sudden popularity as a form of "reverse racism-an effort of schools to purge themselves of a longtime discrimination against...
Such action could scarcely come soon enough. Even if Great Lakes pollution ceased immediately and completely, Chemist Robert Rainey of Oak Ridge National Laboratory reports in a recent Science magazine article, it would still take the natural flow of water through the lakes a shockingly long time to purify them...