Word: wiped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beginning of the modern civil rights movement in 1954 -- is bracing for a new showdown. And although Northerners find it hard to understand, this showdown will be far more important than any that have gone before. More than the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision or the spotty efforts to wipe out segregated schools that followed, the 1968 fight to give black children a decent education will determine the Negro's future in the South...
...work up rough drawings of the ads in comic-strip form. Ideally, these "story boards" will have a "hooker opening" or an intriguing scene-setter, plus a memorable catch phrase or two that dramatizes the need, say, for Murine to cure "eye pollution" or for Wizard air freshener to wipe away "house-itosis...
...Reconstruction" that followed the Civil War, the victorious North tried to wipe out every lingering trace of slavery. But three constitutional amendments and more than half a dozen federal statutes could not put an end to prejudice. As Abolitionist Frederick Douglass wrote in 1881: "The colored man is the Jean Valjean of America. He has escaped from the galleys and hence all presumptions are against...
...years before he became President, John F. Kennedy unsuccessfully sought a ban on imports of foreign weapons?which would have kept out of the U.S. the $12.78 Mannlicher-Carcano Italian rifle that killed him in 1963. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, declaring that "It is past time that we wipe this stain of violence from this land," testified in favor of a bill to tighten controls on handguns ?such as the .22-cal. Iver-Johnson eight-shot revolver that felled him on June...
...girl comes up to me with some paper towels. Take these, she says, so you can wipe the vaseline off your face when you're in jail. I haven't got vaseline on my face. I am thinking that vaseline is a big petroleum interest, probably makes napalm, and anyway it's too greasy. I hear over the walky-talky that Hamilton has been busted and that the sundial people are moving to Low and Fayer-weather to obstruct the police. I put vaseline on my face. I also put vaseline on my hands and arms and legs above...