Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...judicious Post-Dispatch, cheering over the fact that St. Louis has never had a major bloody race riot,* called on the citizens: "It is better to bring this ugly thing into the open. It is better to avert a crisis before it happens than to weep about it afterward. St. Louisans, white and Negro, let's act like civilized human beings! Let's put hooligans of both races-the lunatic fringe-in jail to cool off when they begin flexing their muscles in public places! Let's continue our old tradition of decent relations between the races...
...race riots just across the Mississippi, in East St. Louis, Ill., ended with more than 100 Negroes dead, $400,000 in property damage. St. Louisans have been highly sensitive to race tension ever since...
Better Half. Midway between being an old and newtimer is Helen Sobel. She is a tiny, chic, 34-year-old blonde who looks like Gertrude Lawrence, always wears blue rimmed glasses because of severe myopia. Last week she increased her lead in the race for the William E. McKenney Trophy, awarded to the year's top scorer of masters points. She won the cup in 1941 and 1942, lost it last year to her favorite bridge partner, Charles H. Goren. This year her prospects look good again-she has 194 points, 22 points ahead of her closest rival, George...
...When he was 13, Bill Sinek went into the construction business with $1,000 he had saved while cherry picking and newspaper peddling. At 19 he was making $6,000 a year and 30 years later had built such huge projects as Chicago's Soldier Field, Lincoln Fields Race Track, the Cubs baseball park...
...country's swankest mule race was held a fortnight ago at Greenwood, Miss. Five thousand Delta planters and cotton pickers packed the American Legion ball park for the fourth annual running of the event. The card consisted of five heats and a sweepstakes. Stubborn Delta plow mules, bedecked for superstition's sake with turkey feathers, squirrel tails and paper festoons, were mounted by Negro plowboys in overalls and gaudy silk shirts. Proceeds were earmarked for Mississippi's underprivileged preschool children...