Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that touched on some glaring weaknesses. In one key section Cogley quotes an anonymous "New York public-relations expert who has guided more than a dozen once-blacklisted performers to the 'right people' " to get their names cleared. Cogley's strong implication: the "clearance men" are vicious operators, "with the power to wound and the power to heal the wound." Next day Counsel Arens called in the anonymous public-relations expert. He was Arnold Forster, general counsel for B'nai B'rith's Anti-Defamation League. Forster recalled an interview by a Cogley assistant...
...Cook, 6 ft. 3 in. and slow-spoken, is thoroughly sane, but whenever a threatening cloud shows its face in the Middle West, he hops into his war-surplus Mustang at Kansas City and takes the cloud's pulse and temperature, even if it is crawling with vicious twisters...
...most complex factor of integration at the teaching level revolves around the qualifications of the Negro teachers. If Negro teachers are really inferior, no one can defend keeping them in an integrated school. But by breaking the vicious circle (bad schools giving bad educations to pupils who then in turn become bad teachers) at the student level, the first generation of teachers must invariably suffer...
...more college graduates. Such figures, however, reflect only the lesser quantity, not the lower quality, of current Negro education. Potential's authors report: "On the average [the South's] Negro teachers are much less able than white teachers [despite] the same amount of formal preparation." The vicious cycle: "Like other young Negroes, those preparing to teach are usually handicapped by poor schools and deprived backgrounds." Thus, the South's Negro population, largely ill-taught by ill-taught colored teachers, gets not only less schooling but worse schooling than whites...
...centered on last week's precinct meetings, where victory would give control of the county and state conventions. Shivers campaigned wildly, nailing about on all sides. Johnson, he cried, was "vain, ambitious and vicious," and was "playing footsie" with left-wingers to boot. The issue was whether the Texas delegation would become one "of errand boys bound body and soul in advance to deliver the Texas votes whenever and where Mr. Sam decrees...