26-3-113
In separate cars
Faced with a year in jail or exile, they chose to go to Washington for 25 years. Mrs Loving hated it. She was 'crying the blues all the time,' missing Central Point, despite the fact that they would slip back there in separate cars, first she and the children, then Richard, casually strolling from opposite directions to meet and embrace in the twilight. Only Sheriff Brooks cared that they were married, and they avoided him.
But Mrs Loving wanted to return for good. When the Civil Rights Act was being debated in 1963, she wrote to Robert Kennedy, the attorney-general, to ask whether the prospective law would make it easier for her to go home. He told her it wouldn't, but that she should ask the American Civil Liberties Union to take on her case. Within a year or so, two clever New York lawyers were working free for the Lovings. By 1967 they had obtained a unanimous ruling from Earl Warren's Supreme Court that marriage was 'one of the basic civil rights of man', which 'cannot be infringed by the state'. The Lovings were free to go home and live together, in a new cinder-block house Richard built himself.

A. 어휘
faced→As they were faced. face 직면하다. exile 망명, 追放(추방).
the blues 비관, 우울. despite(전치사) ...임에도 불구하고. slip back 남몰래 돌아가다.
in separate cars 각각 다른 차를 타고. causally 우연히, 뜻 밖에.
stroll 한가롭게 거닐다. embrace 포옹하다. twilight 황혼. for good 영원히.
the Civil Rights Act 民權法(민권법). debate 토론하다. attorney-general 법무장관.
prospective 미래의, 유망한. civil liberties 시민의 자유. take on (일 따위를)떠 맡다.
obtain 획득하다. unanimous 만장일치의. ruling 판결. Supreme Court 대법원.
infringe 위반하다, (권리를)침해하다. the state 州.
cinder (석탄.목재의) 덜 탄 부스러기. cinder-block 시멘트블록.

B. 구문
- the prospective law . . . to go home.
cf. 목적보어가있는 불완전타동사의 목적어가 to-부정사, that 명사절 일 때는 반드시 가목적어 it를 사용해야한다.
ex. I make to get up early in the morning a rule. (×)
→I make it a rule to get up early in the morning. (○)
[그 미래의 법은 그녀가 고향으로 돌아가는 것을 더 쉽게 할 것이다.]

26-4-114
The constitutional arguments had meant nothing to them. Their chief lawyer, Bernard Cohen, had based his case in the end on the equal-rights clause of the 14th amendment, and was keen that the Lovings should listen to him speak. But they did not attend the hearings or read the decision. Richard merely urged Mr Cohen, 'Tell the court I love my wife.' For Mildred, all that mattered was being able to walk down the street, in view of everyone, with her husband's arm around her. It was very simple. If she had helped many others do the same, so much the better.
She had never been an activist, and never became one. When June 12th, the day of the ruling, was proclaimed 'Loving Day' as an unofficial celebration of interracial couples--who still make up only 4% of marriages in America--she produced a statement, but she was never a public figure. She lived quietly in Caroline county, as before. Her widowhood was long, after Richard was killed in a car accident in 1975, but she never thought of replacing him. They loved each other.

A. 어휘
constitutional argument 헌법논쟁. base . . .on ...에 근거를 두다.
in the end 결국. equal-rights clause 平等權條項(평등권조항).
14th amendment (미국) 제 14 수정헌법. keen 갈망하다. hearings 증언청취.
urge 촉구하다. all that mattered 중요한 것은.
in view of everyone 모든 사람이 보는 가운데.
so much the better. 그렇다면 더욱 더 좋다. activist 활동가. proclaim 公布(공포)하다.
unofficial 비공식적. celebration 축하. interracial 다른 인종간의.
statement 聲明(성명). figure 인물. widowhood 과부살이.