Word: uppityness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The 2nd, with rehearsals in Africa and Sicily, landed in Normandy last year and roared into the ruptured German lines at Saint-L6. The closing phase of the war was an armored force field day. All of them - the 2nd, the 3rd, the 4th, the 5th, the 6th, the 7th...
Lady Astor, the House of Commons' uppity, downright, Virginia-born viscountess, vowed that not even V-E day would wean her from teetotalism: "Sometimes I am tempted, but I do not fall."
But this explanation did not hold water. Actually, Britain wishes that it did have a dependable bloc of Empire votes; the four dominions can be as uppity as so many hogs on ice. In any case, nobody knows better than Joseph Stalin that the number of votes in the impotent...
As a group, Southerners insisted that Negroes in uniform keep strictly to the Jim Crow laws. Crowded buses, where the races were forced to mingle, became the scene of ugly flare-ups. In some sections bus drivers toted guns. The South was prepared to back up its Jim Crow laws...
Along with problem dramas, A.N.T. has produced the current Broadway farce, Three's a Family and has gaily spoofed Strivers' Row, Harlem's uppity Park Avenue. Says A.N.T.: "When a race can laugh at its own foibles, it has really become civilized."