Word: retorted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bitter Retort. Tuskegee city officials, backed by most of the community's citizens, protested Wallace's action as an "invasion." But the high school stayed shut-and Wallace ordered most of his troopers to move on to Birmingham, where integration was supposed to start on Wednesday. As the state cops were leaving Tuskegee, Wallace's on-the-scene straw boss, State Finance Director Seymore Trammell, walked...
...other summers, the tree-shaded grounds of Salem College, in Winston-Salem, N.C., have been hushed in the eerie stillness that haunts deserted campuses. But this year the campus is bubbling like a chemical retort with a heady new experiment. Four hundred of North Carolina's most brilliant and creative high school students (fall-term juniors and seniors-to-be) have been brought together for an intensive eight-week study program, thanks to the state's fervently education-minded Governor Terry Sanford. Guiding principle behind this summer school is the Governor's belief that education precedes economic...
...This retort can only be feeble, compared with what I feel. I wish I had the talent to adequately convey how revolted I am by this kind of hooliganism. Consider this letter a panicky gasp, on my part, for some clean...
...York's Democratic Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr. is a much criticized man, but he has a handy retort to any charge leveled against him: the critic, says Powell, is obviously prejudiced against Negroes...
...Cuba relations-and that sensitivity often leads to confusion. Thus, speaking in Houston last week. Secretary of State Dean Rusk insisted that "Cuba will not be permitted to use any of its arms outside Cuba. A Soviet military presence on that island cannot be accepted." That brought a wry retort from Vermont's Republican Senator George Aiken. "I wish," said Aiken, "that Secretary Rusk could make that determination retroactive, because the Russians apparently are occupying Cuba in force, and I understand Soviet-made weapons are showing up in considerable quantities in other Latin American countries...