Word: lawlessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ominous echo of Stennis' outcry came from deep inside the Congo itself, where rebel leaders of the Red-backed National Liberation Committee now hold sway over vast portions of the lawless hinterland. For weeks the rebels had been warning Belgium that any use of white officers to lead Tshombe's bedraggled troops would lead to the slaughter of the hundreds of Belgian civilians. Now the committee's commander in Stanleyville, "General" Nicholas Olenga, was making threats about Americans as well. "We are a sovereign and independent country, which has an internal war on its hands...
...than the white who achieves an equal degree of success. Air Force Major General Benjamin O. Davis Jr., spent most of his four years at West Point as the only Negro there, often felt that he was spoken to only when someone was barking a command. Chicago Dermatologist Theodore Lawless fought off subtle rebuffs while an instructor at Northwestern University. When his hand was to be photographed giving an injection to demonstrate a new technique, he was asked to wear a surgical glove so his dark hand would not "be seen. "I said, 'Hell no,' " he recalls...
...first-class on the Government gravy train. Mississippi sources paid only $270 million in fiscal 1962 federal taxes, said the report. But the U.S. still poured more than $650 million into the state. It is, wrote the commission, high time for the President and Congress to recognize that "the lawless conduct and defiance of the Constitution by certain elements in one state are being subsidized by the other states...
Sickly from birth, Andy became ill after only three months of the first grade, and since the debilitating lung ailment persisted, he never went back to school at all. He could scarcely read until he was 14, still has to depend on his wife to extricate him from his lawless spelling. N. C. Wyeth was delighted to have his son at home on the ground that "no great artist ever went to college." Year after year, Andy's talent grew, until the time came when the great illustrator himself was being introduced as "Andrew Wyeth's father." Today...
...while their spokesmen argued with Gabin, who refused to rent his land to tenants, announced angrily and in haste that he would sell his two new farms−in all probability, to other cumulards, since they are worth nearly $200,000. Last week public indignation at the farmers' lawless tactics, raising memories of the 14th century Jacquerie* prompted Premier Georges Pompidou to declare that his government "will not tolerate" such "unacceptable acts of violence...