Word: ward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kansas City's whites voted against a tough new public-accommodations ordinance. It won approval, and thus will become law, by the thin margin of 45,476 to 43,733 only because some 23,000 Negroes voted for it. In the city's largely Italian Eleventh Ward, the ordinance was trounced 2,455 to 426. In the blue-collar northeast wards, the margin of defeat was almost as great. The only white neighborhoods to approve it, and narrowly at that, were the wealthier country-club sections-whose residents rarely deal with Negroes, except as employer-to-employee...
...answer. Unbaptized innocents go to limbo (from the Latin word for "hem" or "border"), a fringe of hell where they spend eternity in a state of natural happiness. Published this week is a lively survey of the still unfinished debate over this theological issue, called Limbo: Unsettled Question (Sheed & Ward; $3.95). The author, the Rev. George J. Dyer, is a professor of patristic theology at St. Mary of the Lake Seminary near Chicago...
...long unnoticed despite its lack of identifying insignia. Groups of children on their way to school turned to stare at it and point. The driver of a Volkswagen raised his fingers in a V-for-victory sign. As the car picked up speed and headed south ward toward Detroit, a flickering trace of satisfaction crossed its driver's impassive, hawklike face...
...could capitalize most from a white revolt; he is even on record against the civil rights bill. But any Republican stands to gain. Whether the Presidential candidate does so or not depends less on his statements and the Republican platform than on the politicians and professional bigots on the ward and precinct level--like the candidates for Milwaukee County supervisor. There they can appeal to the fears and fears and prejudices that are almost never discussed in national and state campaigns...
...days as economics minister, Erhard often managed to ward off price increases in Germany by lowering tariffs to admit lower-priced goods from Italy and France. This strategy is no longer effective. Inflation in both countries has made their goods less attractive in Germany and has helped increase German exports by making them more competitive around the world...