Word: wade
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Died. Wilton Wade McCrory, 87, frontier-style judge for 31 years on the Texas Criminal District Court bench in San Antonio; of cancer; in San Antonio. Before his retirement in 1954, Judge McCrory delighted many (and infuriated some) Texans with his salty obiter dicta on such subjects as poker (decrying impurities such as lowball), marital infidelity (advising forsaken wives to use the straight razor on their unfaithful husbands), rape ("There's been about as many men raped as gals; we don't have one real rape case a year in this county"), and murder ("Ask anybody if anyone...
While his pals sang, young George Senyk, 15, quietly slipped away. His counselors had designated him a "victim" for a training exercise. His orders were to wade to a small island some 400 yards off the river shore and "act like I was sick" until senior scouts arrived to save him. But George discovered that the river-shallow enough when the counselors had tested it that morning-had risen dangerously. Its swift current was washing a tricky pattern of gulleys and holes in the sandy bottom. A weak swimmer, he wisely decided to wade ashore and hunt up another, safer...
With the coming of the South's sultry summer. Negroes intend to turn the heat on a new front in their campaign against segregation. Sit-ins at segregated lunch counters will give way to "wade-ins" at segregated public beaches. "Negroes get hot just like white people do," said the N.A.A.C.P.'s Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins in announcing the new tactic last week. "They like to swim to cool off, and intend to do it this summer...
Mississippi Negroes stuck a tentative toe into white waters fortnight ago on Biloxi's sun-drenched beach along the Gulf of Mexico. Led by Dr. Gilbert Mason, 31, Biloxi's only practicing Negro physician, 80 Negro men, women and children waded into the gulf, were driven off by a gang of club-wielding, chain-swinging whites. The Negroes have not been back. The new wade-in assault, said Wilkins, will aim at segregated, tax-supported beaches and parks in eleven states along a 2,000-mile coastline curving from Cape May, N.J. to Brownsville, Texas...
...year: 1867, in the dark aftermath of the Civil War. In that year New York's ruthless Roscoe Conkling and Ohio's tough, slovenly Ben Wade ruled the U.S. Senate, waving the vengeful flag of Reconstruction. In that year, too, in Providence, R.I., was born Theodore Francis Green, a kind and gentle person who-a full 70 years later-entered the Senate. Last week, closing out his fourth term, "Teddy" Green announced that he would not stand for re-election in 1960. At 92, he was already the oldest man ever to serve in Congress...