Word: attendant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rare juniors to be elected president of the high school student council. Angie's message: in the three hours before the meeting she and her friends polled 160 of the school's 635 students on the integration question in its bluntest form ("Should Negro students attend Van Buren High School?"). Their tally: 45 opposed, 30 undecided, 85 in favor...
...similar manner, despite their own intentions, most of those answering the poll gave "social" motives as the reasons for other students' decision to attend Summer School. "Fun," "marriage," or "curiosity" were listed three times more frequently than a desire to take courses. "The majority," one girl said, "seem to have come for the social life." (Her own reason was to "pick up a course I didn't have time for during the year...
...pass a "moratorium" law, forbidding U.S. courts to issue desegregation orders for the next six months. Collins could well afford to spend his time advising on national civil rights policy. He has no desegregation problem at home; there is not the slightest possibility that a Negro child will attend school with whites in Florida this year...
...stamp, his administration rammed through laws that packed the Supreme Court and Senate, began the mass resettlement of natives into reserves. He was suspicious of all outsiders, and frequently warned travelers leaving for England to beware of "the fatal British aristocratic embrace." He went abroad only twice, once to attend a Commonwealth conference in London, and another time, when he whipped through England, Ireland, Scotland, The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Denmark, Switzerland, and Italy, and reported back home a month later that the scenery was nice but "some people were unfriendly...
Illustrating the final characteristic statistically, Halsey showed that approximately one-tenth of the children of unskilled workers attend universities...