Word: tracing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation, ever does, because the Games are not set up that way. They embrace a program of competitions among individuals and individual groups like hockey teams, not among national teams. In the events that interest American kids the United States athletes performed creditably. There was not a trace of evidence that any American kids were physically unfit. Indeed, we never had a ski team half so thoroughly prepared...
...minor items have been voted upon and approved. The unhappy history and uncertain future of the other reforms testify to fimn resistance from some quarter Whether the resistance originates with the Establishment described by Clark is uncertain. Opinions and pressure on a particular issue are especially difficult to trace when no major vote has been taken; and Clark's definition of the Establishment was ambiguous to begin with...
...Hicks' second assumption, that school authorities are not responsible for social integration, clearly contradicts the spirit of the 1954 Supreme Court decision. Further, most sociologists trace the origins of prejudice to the early school years, and the integration of elementary schools should be a first step for any city sincerely interested in inter-racial harmony and cooperation...
...Webster's says fossilized means "converted into a fossil," which is "any trace of an animal or plant preserved in the earth's crust...
...anyone who had a grandparent who was a Negro. The laws generally define such a person as "having one-eighth or more Negro blood" or as an "octoroon." The other definition of Negro is used in at least six states: a Negro is any person who has "any trace of Negro blood." The circularity of these statements does not seem to trouble the opponents of miscegenation...