Word: sole
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When U.S. Senator Augustus Octavius Bacon died in 1914, he left 100 acres to his home town of Macon, Ga., as a park "for the sole, perpetual and unending use of the white women, white girls, white boys and white children of Macon." Half a century later, an expanding Constitution upset Bacon's plans. Macon's white citizens realized that the city could no longer administer the park and continue discrimination. Negroes were admitted, only to have the park's trustees sue, claiming Bacon's will had been violated. The city decided to remove itself...
...nation's direction. When food riots broke out in 1964, Shastri wisely de-emphasized Nehru's overambitious industrialization schemes and gave top priority to increasing farm output. He halted the bloody language riots in the south by indefinitely shelving the law establishing Hindi as the sole official tongue. "We must seek the middle way," he declared. In fact, only in relations with Pakistan did Shastri take a hard line. When Ayub forced India's hand over Kashmir, the little Prime Minister responded with the might of his military...
...President's remarks did nothing to improve the New York settlement, and they further obscured the basic questions which are beginning to be asked on all sides about the guidelines system. In fact, the sole result of his statement was to add yet another irritant to a situation already quite irritating enough...
...because of its basic misconception of its role in world affairs. Licht and LaRocca see escape from the circle in total withdrawal of U.S. forces and a Vietnam government led by the National Liberation Front. Many American liberals, however, might object to their designation of the NLF as the sole legitimate representative of the South Vietnamese people...
...Council since '62; Goldberg since '62; Coates since '64; Maher since last week; and Mrs. Wheeler, with an interruption, since '60. Of the Curry supporters, Crane, Vellucci, and Sullivan have the longest tenure of any current Councillors. Thomas H. D. Mahoney, first elected in 1963, is the sole newcomer, and his loyalty to Curry can be explained, to a large extent, by a long friendship with Crane...