Word: racially
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Little else disturbs the bustling, multiracial complex of Hawaii today. Even racial tension, in a spot where there are no fewer than 64 crossbreeds of humans, is less worrisome than that in the U.S. South; Hawaii's intensely loyal 185,000 Japanese sent thousands of their sons to war after Pearl Harbor, and they won a proud record. Bolstered by a high literacy rate, steady solvency (U.S. tax revenues for fiscal 1958: $166 million), a dedicated interest in government (average turnout at the polls: 90% v. 60% mainland presidential peak), the fabled land of polysyllabic kings, brown-skinned women...
...often exposed. The triumph of "really getting to know the people," prime goal of the sincere and energetic travellers, usually consists of conversations in museums, evenings in the beercellars, and native dating. Intellectually, there is little contact; such as there is stays mainly in the of politics, or the racial problem in our South...
...recent deaths of some forty black Africans in civil disturbances in Nyasaland contrasts sharply with the image of a harmonious multi-racial state which Britain had in view when she formed the Central African Federation...
...with Marguerite's mother, lived for the first few months on Marguerite's salary as a teacher at Bethany Day Nursery. Marguerite remembers Harry in those days-the subway-riding days -as "a big, playful animal." A friend. Painter Matthew Feinman, remembers that he was seething with racial feeling. The two of them played chess, and when they were arranging the chessmen, Harry used to say: "I'm taking the black ones, man, because they're better than the white; they're the best...
Mississippi State, the nation's No. 5 team, leads the conference, but may shun NCAA play because of racial issues...