Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Separate Doors. Under Verwoerd's apartheid laws, the "non-Europeans" are constantly reminded of a permanent inferior status. They are forbidden to ride in white trains, buses or taxis, to use white public restrooms, attend white churches, send their children to white schools, even to sit on park benches bearing the insulting words Slegs vir blankes (For whites only). They may spend their money in white stores and invest in the stock market, but to mail a letter they must enter the post office through a separate door and buy their stamps at a separate window. "South Africa," says...
...South African government furnishes most of its civil servants and most of its budget. It is virtually without industry, its soil is eroded and impoverished, its roads little more than tracks for the oxcarts that travel them. Its women wear blankets redder than the dusty earth, its old men sit on the ground in front of their huts smoking long-stemmed pipes. And its young men leave as soon as they can to seek work in the white cities...
Second Highest. Nervous at Feisal's maneuvering, Nasser decided that it was time to grab back the initiative. In an angry broadcast three weeks ago, Egypt's leader called for an "indefinite postponement" of the Algiers summit, declaring: "We cannot sit side by side with reactionary elements." That seemed to kill any chance of a summit. Then last week, Feisal announced that Saudi Arabia would not go along with postponement. "More than ever before," said Feisal, "there is dire necessity for Arab summit conferences, in order to unify the Arab effort." Moreover, said Feisal, his country, which...
Other action against the HUAC subpoenas will include sit-ins in Washington by Women's Strike for Peace directed by Dagmar Wilson, who was once cited for contempt of court in a HUAC hearing...
...squeak by in Wayne's roomy old boots. Cord looks bored, a reasonably sensible reaction to Ann-Margret's pastel flouncing in the painted-lady role defined for keeps by Claire Trevor. In case they don't know what they have missed, the cast ought to sit home some night and catch the real thing on the late show...