Word: vir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...apartheid laws, the "non-Europeans" are constantly reminded of a permanent inferior status. They are forbidden to ride in white trains, buses or taxis, to use white public restrooms, attend white churches, send their children to white schools, even to sit on park benches bearing the insulting words Slegs vir blankes (For whites only). They may spend their money in white stores and invest in the stock market, but to mail a letter they must enter the post office through a separate door and buy their stamps at a separate window. "South Africa," says Laurence Gandar, editor in chief...
...their arrival; those locating elsewhere stopped over in "Freedom House" at Miami's International Airport, where barracks and mess halls were set up. Within 48 hours after their arrival, 54 of the first 75 refugees were on their way to Illinois, New York, California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, West Vir ginia, Virginia and Colorado. To start them off, the U.S. gave each refugee traveling alone and going beyond Miami a $60 grubstake, and each family...
...Staring disconsolately from nearly all of them is the vulnerable "ugly duckling" whose beautiful, indifferent mother died young and whose doting father provided meager solace to her. "He began drinking when she was quite small," Mrs. Cole recalls chattily. "Eventually he was sent off to a little town in Vir ginia." A painfully unpromising New York debutante, Eleanor became the bride of her cousin F.D.R. and seemed destined for a life of no particular distinction as a self-effacing wife, a frequent mother, a perfectly conventional matron of her day. The rush of great and terrible events in World...
...appliance industry nearly outwitted itself a few years back: it so successfully stocked the American home with its basic wares that it faced a vir tually saturated market. It is no longer worried. Appliance makers have opened a new future for themselves with a generation of small appliances that perform tasks most people have been doing by muscle power: electric toothbrushes, shoe polishers, slicing knives, hairbrushes, drink mixers. Sales of small appliances have been rising 18 times faster than those of major appliances, and 250 companies are competing for an anticipated $1.5 billion in sales this year. Last week Chicago...
Throttling the Press. As a leading member of the lower house of the Vir ginia legislature during the Revolutionary War, Jefferson supported a loyalty oath requiring all males over 16 to swear aliegiance to the state. Those refusing were forced to pay triple taxes and stripped of their civil rights. He also helped pass a bill to round up Tories and ship them to designated areas in the interior. He drafted a bill of attainder-which in effect condemns the victim without a trial-against a group of Tories who were plundering the countryside...