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Black Like Me
- All the courtesies in the world do not cover up the one vital and massive discourtesy—that the Negro is treated not even as a second-class citizen, but as a tenth-class one.†
massive = very large
- If there was any doubt as to how "Southern Justice" operates in the State of Mississippi, it was completely dispelled ...when the Pearl River County Grand Jury failed to return any indictments or even consider the massive information compiled by the FBI in the sensational Mack Parker kidnap-lynch murder case.... The axiom that a man is innocent until proved guilty by a court of law has been flagrantly ignored once again in the State of Mississippi.†
- Surely in America a whole segment of decent souls could not stand by and allow such massive crimes to be committed.†
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- And when the matches were tossed and the powder kegs began to explode in 1967, men hid behind the belief that it was all some massive subversive plot against this nation.†
- The Commission report warned that massive displays of force in so-called riot control was one of the deepest sources of resentment and could trigger off more riots.†
- The report was an obvious disappointment to some of our leaders, who had really counted on it to reveal massive subversion, so they simply cast its recommendations aside with the remark: "The report blamed everyone but the rioters."†
- This is certainly one of the reasons why Dr. King's murder did not unleash massive violence, as might have been anticipated.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(massive) very large in size, number, or effect
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
In geology, massive can refer to a type of rock rather than the size of a rock.