Crossword-Solution: NEGROES
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Negroes | pl. | of Negro |
We have 5 clues for the answer “NEGROES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| AFRICAN race | 1 answer |
| ESTATE workers (hist.) | 1 answer |
| NEGRO (pl.) | 1 answer |
| Stars of "Porgy and Bess." | 1 answer |
| GUMBO-speaking people | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEERA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with NEGROES (5)
Chapter 4 All Men Are Created Equal Slavery and the American Revolution "How is it," asked Samuel Johnson, "that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?" The British author was only one of many Europeans who thought it strange that a nation run by slave owners should be so noisily demanding its own freedom.
Once beneath the trees, the body rose straight into the air, and as it disappeared into the foliage above, the terrified negroes, screaming with fright, broke into a mad race for the village gate.
Negroes are tireless gossipers, which, of course, is but a roundabout way of saying that they are human.
The Belgian officer called to his men to fire upon the intruders; but the Negroes held back, filled as they were with superstitious terror of the hairy treemen, and with the conviction that the white giant who could thus summon the beasts of the jungle to his aid was more than human.
Not with the moonlight, for that is faint beside the other one—the sparkle from the crystal candelabra, which negroes, moving noiselessly and respectfully about, are lighting, one after the other.
Quotes with NEGROES (3)
Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.
It was awful to be Negro and have no control over my life. It was brutal to be young and already trained to sit quietly and listen to charges brought against my color with no chance of defense. We should all be dead. I thought I should like to see us all dead, one on top of the other. A pyramid of flesh with the whitefolks on the bottom, as the broad base, then the Indians with their silly tomahawks and teepees and wigwams and treaties, the Negroes with their mops and recipes…
I knew that, in a large degree, we were trying an experiment--that of testing whether or not it was possible for Negroes to build up and control the affairs of a large education institution. I knew that if we failed it wold injure the whole race.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1954).