Word: second-class
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...Agamemnon's captain and first officer moved into second-class quarters to make room for the Greek King and Queen. The Grand Duchess of Luxembourg parked her duds in the chief engineer's bunk. Ex-King Michael of Rumania and his honey-haired wife Anne were berthed in a double stateroom...
...Security Council. As events have shown, and as Mendès-France affirms in effect, it was just an illusion, and the effort of maintaining it in Indo-China proved disaster in fact. What Mendès is now proposing is that France recognize itself as a second-class power, but an honest one. Free of the need to keep up a front. Frenchmen will be relieved of the nagging of creditors, the sneers of critics, the exhortation of friends. Henceforth, they might seem poorer-but feel prouder. Did this mean that Mendès is longing for the illusory...
...will be remembered as long as I live. You cannot imagine the feeling I experienced when I first learned of the . . . decision . . . To me . . . it means that I am one step closer to losing what I consider my "second-class" citizenship. Let us hope that those affected will accept what is right with calm and courage...
Even in his own area, the East Pakistani feels like a second-class citizen, exploited by carpetbaggers from Karachi who hold most of the top government posts and most of the top police jobs. Last week the news seeped through tight censorship that East Pakistan's hatred had flared into appalling bloodshed...
...represents the legal recognition of a very simple fact: segregation is as outmoded as denying the vote to women. The Second World War and the recent Korean conflict only served to hasten what many people considered inevitable. "Separate but equal" has never been more than a written phrase, and the Court has finally ruled that it can no longer be used as the foundation of a second-class citizenship. That yesterday's decision is more than merely an opinion of individuals is shown by the unanimity of a body whose majority in the recent past has been fundamentally conservative...