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Word: yerger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...Accept the Challenge." Landing in Jackson, Kennedy read the local papers−and in them, a challenge from Mississippi Republican State Chairman Wirt Yerger Jr. for him to state his views on integration and segregation. While he kept an overflow reception crowd waiting in the Roof Room of the Heidelberg Hotel, Jack Kennedy hid out in his room, lolling in a warm bath while he thought through a revised version of his speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Through the Roadblock | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

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