Word: surginger
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¶In Orangeburg, S.C., 1,000 students left two Negro college campuses and marched silently in files of two toward downtown drug and variety stores, bent on sit-ins at segregated lunch counters. Town, county and state police, backed by three fire-department pumper trucks, blocked the marchers. "Let the...
Had he not been a thundering liar. Frank Harris would have been a great autobiographer. He shared with the major self-portrait artists-Cellini, Pepys, Boswell and Rousseau-the paradoxical but necessary combination of a surging pride and a vestigial sense of shame. But he had the crippling disqualification that...
Since almost everyone agrees on what happened and why, the writing of Civil War history becomes increasingly an exercise in orchestration. Authors turn out regional cantatas along the lines of Moriaghan's Civil War on the Western Border, surging tone poems in the manner of Sandburg's Abraham...
On the Boulevard. In Algiers-where censors vainly tried to hold up the news -word of Massu's dismissal sent European crowds surging into the streets with cries of "De Gaulle to the gallows!" On a sunny Sunday more crowds milled aimlessly along the city's great Boulevard...
Its industries booming, its citizens more prosperous than ever before, Britain is surging into the 1960s with a self-confidence unmatched since Edwardian days. Yet last week from every side Britons found themselves assailed by Cassandras crying that today's growth was likely to prove tomorrow's ruin...