Word: torch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Republicans can find a man of these qualities, Ike feels, President Kennedy can be defeated: "With the right ticket and a good campaign, we'll give them an exciting race. A Republican able to create confidence, a candidate able to carry our torch well, would have a fine chance of winning...
...formation of disarmament and civil right groups is very largely a response to the stirring rhetoric with which President Kennedy heralded the "passing of the torch," and to the dismal race he and the new generation have run since they took over in Washington. The candidate raised expectations which the President has not satisfied, and the result has been the growth of organizations which aim at doing for themselves what Kennedy is unwilling or unable to do for them. But perceiving only vaguely that at least some of Kennedy's difficulties stem from a stubborn, powerful opposition rather than from...
...Saturday night rioting broke out after the May 17 TIME had gone to press, but an account was included in most copies: "Thousands of enraged Negroes surged through the streets, flinging bricks, brandishing knives . . . put a torch to a white man's delicatessen, fought off firemen as they arrived to put out the blaze...
...Thousands of enraged Negroes surged through the streets, flinging bricks, brandishing knives, pummeling policemen. A white cab driver was knifed, his taxi overturned and burned. A policeman was stabbed in the back and a white youngster's arm was slashed from shoulder to elbow. Negroes put a torch to a white man's delicatessen, fought off firemen as they arrived to put out the blaze. Two Negro homes nearby went up in flames, then three more white men's buildings. The rioters, bathed in the flickering orange light of the flames, looted a liquor store and screamed...
...pushing through the assembled throng to present a gift to the new King, jostled a Christian. "Assassins," cried the Christian, and the mob turned savagely on the hated and distrusted Jewish delegation. Beating, kicking and slashing, the Christians surged through the Jewish quarter of London putting the torch to its tinderbox houses. From the capital, the flames of anti-Semitism fanned northward into Cambridge, Norwich, Lincoln, and finally to the city of York, where in an orgy of bloodletting the city's Jewish population was systematically massacred during its Passover celebration...