Word: rocked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...53rd General Hospital has been hit repeatedly by shots aimed at Nationalist convoys and planes. I went to see young Captain Kua China, the hospital's only real surgeon, who on my previous visit seemed a rock of physical endurance and calm. Now it hurts you to see him. He is exhausted. His eyes are vacant and always near tears. His hand is still steady at the operating table, but trembles when he lights a cigarette. "Every day and every night shells fall here," he says wearily. "We've had to put all patients except the walking wounded...
...press conference called by Arkansas' Governor Orval E. Faubus one day last week, the Rev. M. L. Moser Jr. of Little Rock, Ark. read a statement signed by 80 ministers...
...reflected by many a Southern minister.*Their use of Holy Writ to defend their position does not sit well with many ministers-even in the Deep South. But the fact remains that right now the segregationist clergymen are the ones who are doing the loudest talking. In Little Rock, segregationist clergymen are doing their best to embarrass their opponents by taking newspaper ads to ask why the opponents' own churches are not integrated, if integration is what they believe in. Only big ecclesiastical wheels in Little Rock last week dared go so far as to urge the reopening...
...Northerners, the picture seemed natural enough: a well-dressed Negro with a woman and two children standing in front of a Little Rock high school holding up a large, neatly lettered sign that read...
...calculated it was. The picture was a fake, staged by a squat, bombastic Little Rock haberdasher named James ("Jimmy the Flash") Karam, the man who spurred on anti-Negro mobs for Governor Orval Faubus last fall (TIME, Oct. 7, 1957). Under Karam's direction, a taxicab deposited the Negroes, identified as James Howard and family, near the Hall High School at 8:40 on the morning of the balloting on the issue of segregated v. integrated schools...