Word: without
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Last week, when the votes were counted, the dream became a nightmare: Cliff Case won his renomination by a 2-1 vote over Morris. Said Diehard Morris, without offering Case specific support in the November runoff. "We fought a campaign on principles...
Showing how far and wide the movement has spread without any help from whites, 142 sit-in leaders from eleven Southern states and the District of Columbia met in Raleigh. N.C., voted to set up a Student Nonviolence Coordinating Committee, with headquarters in Atlanta. The delegates pledged themselves to accept jail before bail if arrested, heard the Rev. Martin Luther King, head of Atlanta's Southern Christian Leadership Conference, predict that willingness to go to jail "may well be the thing to awaken the dozing conscience of many of our white brothers." In Nashville, Fisk University's President...
Closing down all schools and bus lines and slapping on a 7 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew, Song and his men rapidly reimposed order without once shooting to kill. But by the time the last rifle shots died away. 108 students were dead, and Seoul's hospitals were jammed with more than 700 wounded. From Pusan, Kwangju, Taegu and Taejon came news of other riots in which at least 22 more people had died...
...Goat? To the council's surprise, the largely rural delegates voted unanimously to retain the custom of bride price. Observed one woman: "A bride price gives a girl a sense of her worth." Others feared that without paying a bride price, a man might say to his wife, "I got you for nothing, so you must be worth nothing." Besides, said another woman, "a bride's family can always remind themselves of their lost daughter by looking at the cows they got in exchange...
...Seat, a wickedly funny short story by James Thurber, from Manhattan to Edinburgh, and expands it from about eight pages of print to 88 minutes of celluloid. Sellers plays the hero of the piece, a timid soul with a face as blank as a manila folder, who has lived without women, whisky, cigarettes, or even regrets, and has worked for 35 somnolent years as a bookkeeper in the dingy Victorian offices of a dyed-in-the-wool conservative company of tweed merchants...