Word: unpleasanter
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Sir: Your article on the conservative trend in American politics has revealed a basic-and unpleasant-side of human nature. When the average citizen achieves a socio-economic plateau that he has long been striving for, the first thing he often does is try to deny that level to those...
The history of desegregating schools is short and it is unpleasant. For each progressive step, there seem to be two steps back. In 1954, after 60 years of Supreme Court decisions allowing the dual school systems in the South, Earl Warren's court finally made the break. Warren's decision...
Of all the places where it is unpleasant to be black in America, you have to look hard to find many worse than Alabama. Proximity to white suburbs and the glittering promises of Real American Life may make the Northern ghettos seem more frustrating, but few Harlemites are frustrated enough...
Discovering a Lie. However easy or unpleasant his prison stay, the draft evader who has served his time soon finds that his problems are not over, despite the fact that social censure is usually no more a problem than it was before conviction. By and large, the resisters have families...
* Literally, Place of the Skull, Lobnoye Mes to is a large masonry platform near the Cathedral of Basil the Blessed. In czarist days, it was used as a place of supplication and as the site of royal orders. The unpleasant name probably dates from the reign of Ivan the Terrible...