Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sustained educational campaign," as one Southerner put it) was as hollow as Southern hopes; civil rights legislation-whether it carries the imprint of the Administration, or Northern Democrats or both-is inevitable in this session, and the Southerners, from Georgia's fiercely eloquent Richard Russell on down, know it. Even so, Dick Russell, as general of the delaying forces, set up his well-organized willful minority, selecting three teams of six men each who could spell each other in relays of pairs, with each pair holding the floor for four hours at a time...
...wins there, he's going to be so far ahead they'll have a long way to go to catch up with him before the convention. If he doesn't, we're right back where we are now-we just won't know where...
...President Giovanni Gronchi was in Moscow last month, his wife, Donna Carla Gronchi, demanded an official accounting on behalf of the Italian Red Cross. "I asked for documentation for every one of the missing," she said, "and if any one of them is dead, I want to know how he died, why he died, and where he died...
...Leonid was killed in battle against the Italians. And the father once put brutally what he thinks on the subject: "They write that we should answer what happened to the Italian soldiers who fought against us, invaded our country, and never returned to Italy. Don't they know what war is? War is a holocaust into which you jump, but it is hard to jump out again. You burn up. And in the war, the Italian soldiers burned...
...this is making no friends for Nkrumah. In big (pop. 35 million) Nigeria, Prime Minister Alhaji Sir Abubakar Tafewa Balewa refers to Ghana's leader with scarcely veiled contempt. "I do not know why you attach any importance whatsoever to what Mr. Nkrumah says," he recently snapped to touring British reporters. In Togoland, popular Premier Sylvanus Olympio is even blunter. "The man must be crazy," he says. "Does he really think he can absorb us with his puny bunch of tin soldiers and those two minesweepers he calls a navy...