Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...legislators together for a pep talk, gave them a piece of oratory distinguished mainly by his unique pronunciation of coup d'état. Hummon made it "coop de tate." He went on the air to cry that radicals were plotting to "destroy the dominance of the white race in the South"-and to suggest that his followers mail in nickels and dimes to pay for the radio time he had used, a matter of $1,637.66. To demonstrate his innate kindliness he even got himself photographed giving a dollar bill to a poverty-stricken Negro sharecropper...
...rnberg in the world's unwritten common law: "If there is no law now under which to try these people, it is about time the human race made some" (TIME, Oct. 21). Perhaps the most striking of several legal opinions, diligently gathered by Keenan, was one by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo (1934): "International law . . . has at times, like the common law within states, a twilight existence during which it is hardly distinguishable from morality or justice till at length the imprimatur of a court attests its jural quality. The gradual consolidation of opinions and habits has been...
...race for independence, the tricky, smiling Burmans last week forged ahead of their solemn Indian neighbors. A Burman delegation prepared to leave London after quickly getting almost everything-short of outright independence-that it had come for. The process had been relatively quiet and painless, although at times it was a bit embarrassing to all concerned, like Sir Hubert Elvin Ranee's reception...
...third straight week, $11,000,000 in bets went through the mutuel windows at California's Santa Anita race track. In England last year, people bet ?500,000,000 on horses and dogs. Since most bettors usually lose, why do they keep at it? In London's Spectator, a reformed English bettor named Edwin Leonard Packer made a remarkably clear dissection of the anatomy of gambling...
...them knew it, but Dodds had been training faithfully all along. He had put his "stamina to a test" at Cincinnati last fall in a six-mile race. "Through the Lord," he explained, "I was able to beat my record time by one minute." This winter he is living in a dingy brick tenement in Roxbury, and trying to support his family (wife and two children) and study theology on voluntary gifts from churches where he preaches. Sometimes they give him $5, sometimes $10, sometimes nothing. Says Dodds, grinning: "I trust in the Lord to get me by, and sometimes...