Word: arcing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Speaking for "the majority of the school," the pretty Ozark Joan of Arc added: "We think it is only fair that the Negroes be permitted to attend this high school . . . Have you thought what you make those Negro children feel like, running them out of school...
...long before he died, or so the story goes, Eugene O'Neill sat before a fireplace in a Boston hotel room. By nature what the psychological men call a "moody" fellow, O'Neill could scarcely have felt much warmth from the flames. As anyone who has appreciated Joan of Arc knows, fire does have its mystical aspects, and with the help of ever-solicitous Carlotta, O'Neill sat up, grasped a sheaf of papers in his palsied hands and thrust it to the flames. No telling what was in the five plays so carefully dispatched by the man who made...
Married. Jean Seberg, 19, cornfed cinemactress who at 17 was chosen for movie stardom as Joan of Arc in Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan; and Francois Moreuil, 24, Harvard-trained French lawyer; in Marshalltown, Iowa...
...Hussein's government acts against saboteurs. Public and press were invited to the officers' mess hall where it was held. But the trial also showed how ineptly the government ran courts-martial and condoned torture. Overnight, Radio Cairo began hailing Nadia as a new "Moslem Joan of Arc," ignoring the fact that she is actually a Christian. Cried the Cairo newspaper Al Shaab: "The coward King, feeling his weakness and impotence before his giant people, has chosen to fight women...
...platitudes sufficient to reach from the Herald Tribune's editorial rooms to the cold caverns of the moon." But to approving readers of her three-a-week column of political analysis, "On the Record" (147 papers), durable Dorothy Thompson was a snappish combination of Cassandra and Joan of Arc, the first and finest of political newshens...