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Subject: ADS-L Digest - 6 Apr 1997 to 7 Apr 1997

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There are 14 messages totalling 422 lines in this issue.

Topics of the day:

 1. Color "Bar"/Color "Barrier"/Color "Line"
 2. tipping (3)
 3. Rule of Thumb
 4. Re[2]: Rule of Thumb
 5. Not exactly double modals (2)
 6. cracker and white trash
 7. used to could (3)
 8. cracker and white trash -Reply
 9. <No subject given>

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Date:  Mon, 7 Apr 1997 00:00:27 -0400
From:  "Barry A. Popik" <Bapopik[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM>
Subject: Color "Bar"/Color "Barrier"/Color "Line"

  Imagine "crossing the color line," and then finding out fifty years later
that you "broke the color barrier."
  BREAKING THE SOUND BARRIER is a 1952 film from the late, great David
Lean. "Breaking barriers" took off in the 1950s, although it has not
completely replaced "color line."
  A check of Eureka's Newspaper Abstracts shows 8 "color bar," 36 "color
barrier," and 61 "color line" headlines.
  A "color bar" might be "hurdled."
  A "color barrier" was usually "broken."
  A "color line" was often "crossed." Like the sound barrier, the color
line was often "broken" was well--probably by running faster than you can say
"Jack Robinson."

COLOR BAR (8)
hurdle--1
belies--1
add up to end of--1
falls--1
in--2
break--2

COLOR BARRIER (36)
break--19
erects--1
face--1
erased--1
recedes--1
in news--1
eliminate--1
no--1
cross--1
imprisoned--1
memories from--1
wage battles against--1
breaches--1
broadens--1
seeing beyond--1
sliding past--1
comes tumbling down--1
strides past--1

COLOR LINE (61, occurring 67 times)
break--11
color line (no other words--ed.)--9
across--4
cross--4
along--1
balancing on--1
dancing over--1
over--1
draws--1
statement on--1
campaign on--1
life on--1
on--1
truth on--1
maintain--1
target--1
politics and--1
lives uneasily astride--1
problem of--1
disciple of color and line--1
divided on--1
fights on against--1
want no--1
envision no--1
contest spans--1
meets--1
focus on--
the world's--1
hair color line--1
fears of--1
other side of--1
new--1
remarks on--1
runs afoul of--1
extend to--1
look at--1

   Check Newspaper Abstracts again in about a month.