Word: respecters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mike Cooper of Cambridge City's Accident Room agrees: "Suffering is a great leveller. Seeing someone suffer makes you respect him. It has a very humbling effect...
...example of how the NAACP has lost much respect in Mississippi, among even the most fair-minded people, was its recent handling of the Till case. It loosed a stream of vicious accusations and threats, indicting officials, newspapers, ministers, and the so-called "better citizens" of the entire state. Moreover, it began its accusations as soon as the body was found, despite the fact that every person and organization in the state let out a cry against the murder. People from all types of occupations were asked about the Till case, and no one came near condoning such a brutal...
...said that humor, or attempts at it, is the property of a particular sort of mind--a mind which is either frenetic or dormant enough to see the incongruity of situations or vocations. Humor, and especially satire and parody, requires a divorcement of the subject from consequence. In this respect, it is not an idle assumption that "learning at the College level" took on new importance to the typical Harvard undergraduate in the 30's. A new type the "learner," quickly infiltrated the student body and greatly influenced but did not wholly replace the old type, the "liver...
Riding the way he wanted to, pretty much, little (5 ft. 4 in., no lbs.) Willie moved up to the big time permanently in the spring of 1954. His rough and ready tactics have already earned him seven suspensions. But Willie is fast learning a proper respect for the film patrol. He claims he can remember the racing characteristics of every horse he has ever ridden (some 1,500 mounts this year alone) and that he knows the tricks of every horse that ever finished a race in front of him. Armed with this knowledge, he is a sharp operator...
...five years as president of the University of North Carolina, shy, hardworking Gordon Gray, 46, won both the respect and the admiration of his three campuses. He carried on a $47 million building program, launched new four-year schools of medicine, dentistry and nursing, earnestly tried to make his university "the brain, the nerve center, the heart and the conscience and the will of the state." But he was a man too much in demand: he was called so often to Wash ington-as special assistant to President Truman on foreign aid, director of the Psychological Strategy Board, chairman...