Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...airport, reading a long farewell statement, she referred to the fact that the U.S. had encouraged the coup: "Judas has sold the Christ for 30 pieces of silver. The Ngo brothers have been sold for a few dollars." By this Mme. Nhu meant the aid that the U.S. had withheld from Diem but restored "to those who would not hesitate to turn their guns against their own duly elected leaders." She had heard reports that, after being murdered by South Viet Nam's new rulers, "President Ngo Dinh Diem's face was serene in death, and my husband...
...fail, and DuBois realized that when the NAACP began to support the magazine financially he would no longer control its policy. So in 1933 he returned to Atlanta University for 10 years of research and teaching. By now he had published nine books, including two novels, Quest of the Silver Fleece (1911) and Dark Princess (1928). It was in 1935 that he finally brought forth his monumental study, Black Reconstruction in America...
...Mississippi," said Silver, "has been on the defensive against inevitable social change for more than a century." He charged that the state's churches have hemmed and hawed between racial right and wrong, that lawyers and judges are confused about whether or not to obey federal courts, that legislators spend much of their time "devising legal subterfuges to keep the Negro in his place," and that business leadership has abdicated its power to the white Citizens Councils. Even in such a "closed society," Silver found, the Negro has made some gains-and will make more as he demands...
...Silver was obviously risking his Ole Miss job with some nine years left before pensioned retirement. That made no difference. He was just plain...
...first half, the Globetrotters laughed their way to a 20-0 lead. But the script always calls for the Taverners to win. And so Prince Philip, 42, a Taverner reserve and part-time Gunga Din, donned white waiter's jacket and served the visitors champagne in silver cups. While the Globetrotters reeled, his mates stole one of the baskets. That bit of gamesmanship gave the Taverners a 26-24 victory, and Philip's favorite charity got $22,400 in proceeds from the event...