Word: queerly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Those Queer Nigger-Lovers." For years the people of Americus took little notice of "those crazy race mixers." But after the Supreme Court desegregation decision in 1954 there began to be ugly rumors: "Communist spies" were harbored there; "sex mixing" was practiced. When Clarence Jordan endorsed the applications of two Negroes for admission to Georgia State College of Business Administration, things began to happen. There were anonymous phone calls; the roadside signs were ripped down at night; retailers turned down Koinonia produce...
Some people in Americus were shocked. Others said: "I'll bet those queer nigger-lovers did it themselves. We ought to run them out of the county...
...moment the crowd remained silent in confusion. Then a few quickwitted Christian Democrats began to cheer. They remembered a queer quirk in the Italian electoral law: in case of tie votes, the older man is chosen. And 52-year-old La Pira happens to be 18 months older than Socialist Ramat...
...gooks and geeks of creation; Believe-It-or-Not is the name of our star. Each of us here thinks the other is queer and no one's mistaken since...
Such polarization around the academic side of college life has led M.I.T. men to form rather interesting views of their Harvard contemporaries. While the most conservative regard the Harvard man as a "different kind of animal pursuing an entirely different goal," others brand him as an "egghead," "esthete," or "queer." Some see him as more versed in the social graces, since he has more free time in which to practice them. As one student puts it, "I think of Harvard men as wearing clothes rather than holes with clothes around them as we do here." He explained that...