Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days the United Nations turned a blueprint into a going concern. Fifty-one nations, spanning the gamut of race, color, language and tradition, had to concur. They did-with ultimate unanimity. How long and with what travail would it have taken Congress to complete a comparable task...
...elections. Key Man of G.O.P. hopes in Pennsylvania is Governor Edward Martin, who is out to oust Democratic Boss Joe Guffey from his U.S. Senate seat. G.O.P. chances, already high thanks to Martin's popularity, were enhanced last week by the party's choice for the Governorship race: able Attorney General James H. Duff...
Adoption, however, was all but impossible. Like British village matrons, British charitable institutions were turning up suddenly race-conscious noses at illegitimate mulatto babies. Even when the father and mother were married, U.S. custom sometimes intervened to prevent reunion. The League of Colored Peoples asked one Southern Negro father if he wanted to take his white wife to America. "Brother," he replied, "if I did, I would have to leave her in New York when I went home...
...They are young people of every race and nation, workers or students or service men and women, who are fighting to lead clean lives close to Christ in the midst of terrific temptations, or older men who have courageously foresworn sin and the evil habits of a lifetime...
...swans gobbled up the grain, ignored the peeping toms. Old swans and young did their best for the race. Last summer the guards kept tabs on 17 happy couples, watched 50 cygnets hatched...