Word: spratt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...popular Doctor series, begun nearly ten years ago, has, with this fifth reprise, taken a decided turn for the worse. All the hospital hanky-panky is still there. All the droll British bit players. All the anatomical jokes, delivered by Dr. Simon Sparrow (Dirk Bogarde) and Sir Lancelot Spratt (James Robertson Justice), whose medicareers have provided them with a decade of job security. But the humor has grown progressively more frail, foolish and familiar. Nobody really cares when the adipose Sir Lancelot goes on a diet to win the love of his physiotherapist, and deep within the tissue of this...
...Congress of Racial Equality makes claim to inventing the sit-in and the Freedom Ride. Formed in 1942, it first tried the sit-in technique that year on a Chicago restaurateur named Jack Spratt. Says CORE'S National Director James Farmer, 43: "The N.A.A.C.P. is the Justice Department, the Urban League is the State Department, and we are the nonviolent Marines...