Word: stayed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Into Next Year. The mobs cared nothing for "Negro leadership" either. When the riot was only a few hours old, John Conyers, one of Detroit's two Negro Congressmen, drove up Twelfth Street with Hubert Locke and Deputy School Superintendent Arthur Johnson. "Stay cool, we're with you!" Conyers shouted to the crowd. "Uncle Tom!" they shouted back. Someone heaved a bottle and the leaders beat a prompt retreat, not wanting to become "handkerchief heads" in the bandaged sense of the epithet. "You try to talk to these people," said Conyers unhappily, "and they'll knock...
...everything but small change after which she is unceremoniously dumped in an alley. She develops pneumonia; teams of doctors save her life but not her mind. In the shadows of the apartment, the old lady withdraws into herself to bicker with the whisperers, who have settled in to stay...
...keeping them. For this reason, white staffers are still to be found on Negro papers. Some editors look for promising high school students, then help pay their way through college, in the hope that they will join the paper after graduation. Even if they do, they are unlikely to stay. The white dailies, public relations firms and the Federal Government siphon off the best Negro journalists and leave the papers sorely understaffed. The Atlanta Inquirer in seven years has had eight different editors. "As long as I've been in this business," says Chicago Defender Publisher John Sengstacke...
McNulty's is a dingy neighborhood bar in an old part of the city. It attracts mostly old men from the neighborhood who come in around non stay till five, come back at seven and stay till closing. The old TV bought years ago to encourage business after a new highway isolated the place from traffic, is never turned on. Once in a while a stranger will come, attracted by the pasteboard sign hanging in the window: "McNulty's--Next to the railroad potato yards, come in and meet the real spuds." The real spuds always have something...
...main plants by hopping around by Lear jet and Cessna. He spends Saturday mornings with his top command at the main office in Boise's Bank of Idaho building. Heavily recruited from the Harvard and Stanford business schools, it is a compact, youthful group. "We purposely stay thin," says Charles F. McDevitt, 35, who is one of the company's six vice presidents. "You just have to run a little faster...