Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When she refused to sit in the Jim Crow section of a Norfolk-Baltimore bus, Irene Morgan, a Negro, was thrown out and fined $10. Virginia's highest court upheld the action. But an appeal was made to the U.S. Supreme Court. This week seven nimble Justices ducked the racial question and settled everything on the basis of comfortable traveling...
...General sent Tokyo police, armed with short swords, to rout the sit-downers, after issuing a warning: "Physical violence [by] undisciplined elements will not be permitted...
...Budd Gets Around. As "chance" would have it, they arrive just as the Japs attack. One of the she-shipmates is missing in action. Lanny marries the other-an amateur medium who has spirited conversations with the late financier Otto Kahn. They escape through China, sit a spell with Communist Leader Mao Tze-tung, then fly to a Moscow powwow with Joseph Stalin, who says: "You are a well-informed man, Mr. Budd, and good company. The next time you come this way, I hope you won't fail to let me know...
Capp got the idea a year ago, discussed it with Sinatra and friends. Charlie Ross, president of Barton Music Co., agreed to publish the song. Songsmith Sammy Stept (Don't Sit under the Apple Tree, etc.) wrote the music. Capp promised to draw the radio characters straight if they in turn would treat "Daisy Mae" and "Li'l Abner" as real people. Radio, which often lives in a comic-strip world, did not have to change pace...
...laxity uncharacteristic of this nation is doing more to develop ill will toward the U.S., and hunger and starvation for the people of Europe, than citizens of the U.S. dare to realize. How can we honestly sit down to the table with our consciences and not make sacrifices to aid pitiful and undernourished children...