Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is also the artistic approach to maturity. If numbers are any guide, it would appear that art offers happiness and security. The appeal of this group has diminished as most undergraduates realize that everyone believes he could write a really great novel if he ever sat down...
Integration's most striking success story unfolded right in the nation's capital. Prodded by President Eisenhower's appeal for trailblazing, the District of Columbia's board of education was ready with an integration plan one week after the Supreme Court handed down its decision. At first white high-school students boycotted classes and booed Negro newcomers, but these protests soon ended when school authorities sternly threatened to ban troublemakers from athletic teams and other extracurricular activities. Washington, D.C. schools are now fully integrated (but 20% of the Negro schoolchildren, living in Negro neighborhoods...
...territories would probably be so carved that Europeans would control two assemblies, and Moslems the other four. After a two-year cooling-off period, during which France would seek to end the fighting, the territorial assemblies could establish a central federal assembly, which would have the power to appeal for more autonomy, and to seek to renegotiate France's right to retain control of Algeria's defense, foreign relations, and finances...
Colonel in Disguise. Despite Djuanda's fervent appeal for openhearted and brotherly discussion at last week's conference, the people in the shed eyed one another mistrustfully throughout. Before the conference began, Colonel Sumual carefully disguised himself as a Chinese merchant and made a secret trip from Celebes to Sumatra to confer with his fellow rebel colonels. They decided to attend the conference only if Premier Djuanda and Mohammed Hatta would guarantee their personal safety. This the two statesmen agreed...