Word: skin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boys, Rhodesians, sturdy Gurkhas, Africans and Fijiians . . . are all risking their lives side by side with Malays, Chinese and Indians . . . These men see their real enemy-Communism. They also see their real friends, and know that the things they are fighting for transcend any differences there might be of skin or color or custom." The club committee resigned in a body, and their successors endorsed a new policy of interracial friendship...
...that its rocket motors are pointing forward. A brief blast from them reduces the ship's speed by 1,070 m.p.h. and puts it into an elliptical course which swings down toward the atmosphere. In its outer fringes, 50 miles up, air resistance heats the rocket's skin and wings to a brightly glowing red (1,300° F.), but the crew, protected by insulation and liquid-cooled windows, do not feel the heat. The ship glides on, part meteor, part airplane. Gradually its energy is dissipated; it spirals down, slows to subsonic speed and lands...
Disobedience. Fear made the whites' reaction as volatile and unpredictably savage as the Negroes' wrath. "It's them or us," growled a Port Elizabeth cop. "A white skin now means death." Prime Minister Daniel Malan's Nationalist government sent army tanks and armored cars to patrol the highway between East London and Port Elizabeth; low-flying planes "exercised" over the "disaffected areas." In the cities, Boers and Britons alike queued up to buy guns; on the veld, Boer farmers organized rifle commandos, itched to "teach the Kaffirs a lesson they won't forget." "The time...
...stopped him cold; now, with most of South Africa's 2,500,000 whites demanding more, not less apartheid, Malan is in position to go to the country for a new election and win the necessary two-thirds constitutional majority to do what he likes with anyone whose skin is not white...
Ultimately the Harvard and Yale man are brothers under the skin. Nothing about the relationship between the two schools is so typical as the experience of a CRIMSON editor who wandered into the Trumbull College television room one night in search of local color, and became involved in a vigorous argument about football with a bona fide Yale man. At last becoming suspicious, the Yale asked "Where are you from anyway?" "Harvard" confessed the investigator. "My God," said the Trumbull man, "All the time I thought I was talking to the guy who sits next to me in Poly...