Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spoke, whites and Negroes were at least sitting down in the same room in Albany, Ga., but it was in a federal courtroom, not at a bargaining table. The city fathers, having lost one order restraining mass Negro protests over segregation (TIME, Aug. 3), were trying to revive it. But as Mayor Asa Kelley Jr. said, "At the rate this hearing is going, we'll be here until the next generation...
...been long in coming. Twenty years ago, when she was a warmly shopworn 16, she had first tried to kill herself. Guilt became her constant companion and she "broke promises and contracts and friendships to seek it out. She felt pulled and taunted and cheated, but when she spoke of what troubled her, her thoughts always resolved themselves so innocently that she seemed more frolicsome than frightened. "I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual," she would say. And her brow would furrow...
MacArthur reported that "Many Conservatives resented MacMillan brusque changes," but denied published reports that the Prime Minister was received in right-lip silence when rising to to Galtskell's motion of censure. "Actually," MacArthur said, "we gave a great cheer when MacMillan spoke...
Amid jeers from the opposition and tight-lipped silence from his own benches, Harold Macmillan rose listlessly to defend his policies. In a tired voice that at times was barely audible above Labor's barracking, he spoke for nearly an hour, dusted off half a dozen Macminimal economic palliatives that had first been recommended 15 years ago in the Tories' Industrial Charter. Macmillan's most important proposal was for a National Incomes Commission ("Nicky") to supplement the government's new National Economic Development Council ("Neddy"). Jointly, these bodies, whose actual authority is undefined, would...
Their names, if they were married, were Peg and Tom, Jane and Bill, Jeremy and Jennifer. Single men were always called Brick or Brock or Bruce. Unmarried girls needed a gallant name; it was usually Helen. They lived in a smallish, unidentified city in an immemorial Indiana. The men spoke to each other in a language called kidding ("You old son of a gun"), and the women talked somberly about "our marriage'' as if marriage were a large, fragile china object one kept in the front hall. They led decent, busy lives, and the worst sinners among them...