Word: segmented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...census figures shows that only 52% of the country's 18.9 million Negroes still live in the eleven states of the old Confederacy-compared with 60% in 1950 and 81% in 1910. In the midst of a general population increase and an increase of the Negro segment of the population from 10% to 10.5%, many Southern states showed only slight increases in Negro population. Arkansas and Mississippi had decreases...
...character who endeared herself most to the audience (at least to this particular segment of the audience) was Frances Blakeslee, who bumped magnificently through the part of Gladys--the big, red-haired bomb-shell. From her devastating rendition of I'm a Red Hot Mama to the hearty parody of Plant You Nog' Dig You Later, she showed herself a remarkably skilled comedienne. It was an increasing pleasure to see her bounce onto the stage, wiggle her nose, etc., and let go with that big voice...
Clearly, the shift is not just the result of rising intelligence. Not only does the higher motivation of new entering classes generally tend to academic lines whose logical consummation is graduate study, but the class includes a growing lower-class but intellectually motivated segment of the national population, for which business is neither a natural nor an attractive career...
Perhaps more people than at any time since the Revolution took a stand on an embattled segment of Cambridge Common yesterday morning to protest the proposed sale of the site to area promoter John Briston Sullivan for an office building on stilts...
Perhaps the most meaningful segment of TIME'S readers is to be found among tomorrow's leaders- the undergraduate and graduate student bodies on campuses across the country. Here we are proud to number a quarter of a million subscribers, with a probable total readership of at least a million...