Word: seene
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite increasing U.S. tolerance, the fact is that it is still far from easy for blacks to be seen with whites. On the campus, white girls who date blacks risk rejection by white male classmates. "Off campus no place is really safe," says a young Negro journalist in Detroit. "When I have a white girl in my car, I don't stop at red lights, I make sure my car's in good condition with the gas tank full and a good spare. God forbid I should have to stop somewhere with a white girl...
...major effect of that selling was a sharp decline in the price of sterling on foreign exchange markets. Obliged to buy up pounds to keep the currency from dropping too far below its $2.40 official price, Britain has seen its reserves of gold and foreign currencies shrink to $2.7 billion, less than half the amount that would be necessary to re deem all the pounds held by individuals and central banks in sterling-area countries...
...contemporaries in the 1920s, young Aldous Huxley had been a legend for his "lack of charity." He was seen as "a walking encyclopedia," alive only from the neck up. Aldous, Elizabeth Bowen once said with damning praise, was "the stupid person's idea of the clever person...
...worthy of sharing the prize money. The design finally adopted, however--an ingeniously logical and space-saving system of 48 characters--was largely that of Kingsley Read. And the bi-alphabetic edition of Androcles was duly published in 1962. Whether the Shaw Alphabet achieves widespread use remains to be seen...
...surely you've all seen...