Word: rooster
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That was the Stalin I remember during the war. Yet after the victory, there he was, strutting around like a rooster, his chest puffed out and his nose sticking...
...chairman of the Alabama Democratic Party from 1966 to 1977, the jovial, imposing (6 ft. 3 in.) Vance was the epitome of the moderate Southerner intent on expanding the rights of blacks. Vance successfully integrated the party, in the process helping to remove from its seal the white rooster that had long served as a symbol of white supremacy. In 1968 he led the first racially mixed state delegation to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. As a lawyer, Vance shocked the tight-knit legal community by breaking a gentlemen's agreement to keep blacks off juries in Birmingham. President...