Word: weak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blue eyes, Lillian Smith hardly resembled a pioneering crusader for civil rights. Her manner was retiring, her voice soft and small. But her forceful message cut through the Georgia drawl: Jim Crow demeaned and diminished every Southerner, white or black. "Racial segregation has been a strong wall behind which weak egos have hidden for a long time," she wrote in 1951. She castigated Southern Governors who defied the U.S. Supreme Court's order to integrate the schools. As a result, she said, Southern whites "are losing their freedom to do right, to act as their conscience dictates; they...
These conservatives, then, stick to the present. They harp on the pitfalls of the Great Society and offer immediate, if virtually inviable solutions. And in 1966 their liberal opposition has been weak, if not hopelessly divided...
Backers of Baltimore, which survived Sports Illustrated's curse to mop up the weak American League, point to the Orioles' fantastic hitting as a counter to the Dodgers' pitching...
...times, five of which were recovered by Rutgers. Worse, sophomore quarterback Brian Dowling suffered a severe leg cramp late in the first period of play and was forced to sit out the remainder of the game. Dowling is expected to be ready for this Saturday's game against a weak Brown team...
...needs of our Negro population and its progress for economic equality. Although there is very little discrimination in the admission of Negroes in our outstanding universities and colleges today, there are still mighty few Negroes in evidence on many of our finest campuses. The channels of communication are weak. Very few Negroes apply. So long as a large part of all Negroes attend inferior schools, they cannot hold their own in the objective college entrance examination. And of course, lower Negro incomes mean that fewer Negro families can afford the heavy expense of higher education. Our colleges and universities should...