Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...CAROLINA [OCT. 22]. FRANKLIN C. ERICKSON, EMINENT GEOGRAPHER BUT NO KIN TO THE UNDERSIGNED, WAS NOT INVOLVED IN THE DURHAM INTER-RACIAL DINNER NOR WAS IT A TWOSOME AFFAIR BUT RATHER AN HONORARY DINNER GIVEN BY NEGRO CITIZENS OF DURHAM, MOSTLY DEMOCRATS, IN RECOGNITION OF A MEMBER OF THEIR RACE WHO HAD ACHIEVED NATIONAL PROMINENCE. THE UNDERSIGNED WAS ONE OF SOME 20 WHITE PEOPLE WHO WERE INVITED AND ATTENDED. E. C. DANIEL, THEN A CUB REPORTER FOR RALEIGH NEWS AND OBSERVER, AND NOW WITH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, PLAYED UP THE STORY IN A SENSATIONAL MANNER, FEATURING UNDERSIGNED'S NAME...
...optimistic plan to keep foreign nations . (everyone knew that meant Russia) from making atom bombs. Scientist after scientist turned up to swear that there was no real secret to be kept, to point out that the May-Johnson bill would only throttle scientific research and start a world arms race. Amid all the confusion new bills were .written-last week a Ball bill, a McMahon bill, a Kilgore-Magnuson bill and two joint resolutions were also pending before the Senate...
...listed three possible alternatives, rejected two of them: i) a policy of all-out "secrecy and suppression" would make the U.S. Government authoritarian, restrict science and research, stimulate a disastrous race for atomic power; 2) open-handed sharing of all U.S. knowledge, and unbridled reliance on good faith, would be equally disastrous. Said Stassen: "All of history says that good faith alone is not sufficient for peaceful relationships between...
Twelve years ago the nation's race tracks cracked down on the widespread practice of "hopping" horses; into limbo went the old standbys, heroin and cocaine, which mandatory saliva and urine tests showed up crystal clear. Inventive horsemen-and few are short on imagination-promptly began a painstaking search for a magic hop that would leave no telltale evidence. Stories and jokes about new nasal sprays and rectally-administered stimulants soon became standard race track shop talk...
...Losing Race. In time the first secret of the Weser became apparent. Its parent plant was producing V-weapons. But it also manufactured cyclotrons for atomic experimentation. As the Allies bombed German laboratories, the Weser shipped new cyclotrons to secret destinations in the Reich where Hitler's scientists were running a losing race with history. At least three cyclotrons were shipped in the last year and a half...