Word: shaded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never bother to read the instructions, and argue, as did one Washington matron: "Why should I? I know how to run these things without reading about them." In New Orleans a housewife phoned angrily that her new freezer was defrosting; the repairman found it was unplugged. In Maple Shade, NJ. an infuriated motorist called the service station to tow his stalled car away; the mechanic found that the owner had forgotten to push the "drive" button on his new pushbutton transmission. And in Chicago repairmen for General Electric have been trying for years to convince a lady that her refrigerator...
...claim by a Negro spokesman that the book is "racially offensive" shows a reading in which the racial sensitvity was sharper than the wits. For if there are some "passages derogatory to Negroes" (largely because the vernacular used has since changed in shade of meaning) the total drama shows the dignity and worth of "nigger Jim." Indeed, Huck's own moral growth is a function of his affection and respect for Jim. Other whites show badly in comparison as Jim teaches Huck not mere tolerance, but love. That the process is slow and painful and that it takes place...
...little later--with out time getting thin--he came within a shade of answering the question he had turned down. "What do you think Truman would have done?" he asked. "And Roosevelt...ah now...Roosevelt...
...Client Revson: "It started in the afternoon. Around 7 a waiter from Longchamps came in to serve his dinner. Not a crumb of food was offered to anyone else at the table. The meeting went on through the night." A perfectionist, Revson can talk for hours over the exact shade of red he wants...
...over the longest period of time." As recently as last April, two new school-board members were overwhelmingly elected with their support of the integration plan as the chief issue. The Little Rock school board had selected the nine Negro children carefully, considering intelligence, achievement, conduct, health -even the shade of their skins...