Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...election results shed considerably less credit on the white voters of Alabama, who overwhelmingly endorsed Lurleen Wallace as her segregationist husband's puppet candidate in a cynical attempt to evade the state's constitutional provision that prohibits a Governor from succeeding himself (see following story). Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King denounced Lurleen's victory as "a protest vote against the tide of inevitable progress...
...addition, the theory may shed some light on the age-old question of why the sky is black at night, rather than gray or as bright as the sun itself...
...dukes, politicians, prelates, publishing lords, financiers and industrialists all knew one another-it is still truer today in the new society. The London that has emerged is swinging, but in a far more profound sense than the colorful and ebullient pop culture by itself would suggest. London has shed much of its smugness, much of the arrogance that often went with the stamp of privilege, much of its false pride-the kind that long kept it shabby and shopworn in physical fact and spirit. It is a refreshing change, and making the scene is the Londoner...
Death and taxes are unavoidable. For most people, marriage and taxes seem equally inescapable. Not for tempestuous Soprano Maria Callas. By signing her name to a piece of paper in the American embassy in Paris and renouncing her U.S. citizenship, she shed not only her husband but a hefty potential tax obligation as well...
...unions. In Parliament his acerbic wit and quick thrusts had continually kept the Opposition off-balance. Heath had no such advantages. He had taken over a badly divided party only eight months ago, and not entirely succeeded in closing the rifts. As a leader, he did not begin to shed his image of aloofness until the last ten days of the campaign. By then it was too late...