Word: seamstresses
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...Rosa Parks, a 42-year-old Negro seamstress, was ordered by a Montgomery City Lines bus driver to get up and make way for some white passengers. She refused, was arrested and fined $10 under an Alabama law making it a misdemeanor for any person to disobey a bus driver's seating instructions. But that was not the last of the Rosa Parks case: it has since been used to prove that economic reprisal, as advocated against Negroes by the white Citizens' Councils of the South, is a double-edged blade...
...archbishop developed his knack for high-level church politics without ever studying in Rome and attended public as well as parochial schools as a boy in Columbia, S.C. His father, a stonecutter from northern Italy, died when Joseph was six, and his mother supported the family as a seamstress. In 1945 Bernardin left the University of South Carolina, then entered a seminary. He returned home in 1952 as a protégé of liberal Bishop Paul Hallinan...
...schoolteacher and a seamstress from central Missouri, Bradley found the prospect of going to college too expensive after graduating from high school. Instead, he took the advice of his Sunday school superintendent and applied for admission to West Point. He graduated in 1915, 44th in a class of 164; among his classmates were 30 officers-including Ike-who served as generals in World...
...invented, not the goofs and failures that came before. They are interested in the paintings artists create, not--with the rare exception of a Leonardo da Vinci--in the sketches discarded in the process. Viewers want to see polished statues and coronation gowns, not chips of marbk or a seamstress's needle and thread...
...believe all those rumors about Besty Ross and the late nights? The American flag was actually conceived in Cambridge, where a seamstress was asked to put together the familiar 13 bars with a British emblem of some kind. Nobody's really quite sure exactly why it was done, but the army needed something to march under...