Word: registeration
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When he set out in 1746 to write the first great English dictionary. Samuel Johnson intended his definitions to be laws that would firmly establish meanings. But usage thumbs its nose at laws; the dictionary nowadays is more a Social Register of words than a Supreme Court of language. In...
By a lopsided vote of 70 to 19, the U.S. Senate extended for two years the life and investigatory power of the Civil Rights Commission. Southern Senators predictably opposed the measure-and by their lights, they had good reason. For last week, after its continued existence was assured, the six...
> In East Carroll Parish, La., Negro Farmer Joseph Atlas complained to the commission that he had not been allowed to register. Soon after, he discovered that white merchants would not gin his cotton, market his soybeans, or deliver fuel oil to his farm.
> In Webster Parish, La., Negro Joe Kirk tried unsuccessfully four times to register. On his fourth try, the registrar invoked a proposed Louisiana law-which was not really passed until five months later-disqualifying parents of illegitimate children. Testified Kirk at a commission hearing: "She asked did I have any...
The urgency in Che Guevara's pleas for coexistence reflected Cuba's increasing economic troubles. With something less than his usual cockiness. Fidel Castro announced last week that he was imposing meat rationing on the fertile "Pearl of the Antilles." All housewives must register with neighborhood butchers, who...