Word: ax
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...Ax-Handle Saturday. Not only have the academies spawned resegregation, but many urban school districts -especially in Atlanta, Richmond, Charleston, S.C., and Houston-have become increasingly black because a large number of whites have moved to the suburbs. Another pattern of resegregation occasionally takes place within desegregated schools when students are simply assigned to segregated classes. Sometimes the black students segregate themselves. For example, at the season's first pep rally this year at Indian River High School in Chesapeake, Va., all the blacks sat on one side of the gym while the whites sat on the other Says...
...busing, but primarily to move black students-30% of the roughly 115,000 students-from throughout the county to inner-city all-black schools. During that period, civil rights demonstrations by black groups prompted a violent reaction from the conservative working-class whites. In 1960 a Ku Klux Klan "ax-handle Saturday" resulted in a riot in which blacks who were peacefully picketing for integrated restaurants were severely beaten...
Under the hot Arizona sun, the two bitter enemies circled each other like battling scorpions, stingers at the ready. Jabbed Representative John Conlan: "We are both conservatives, but our style is different. He uses a meat ax and I use a scalpel." Riposted Representative Sam Steiger: "John thinks of himself as a scalpel. I prefer to think of him as a Roto-Rooter." So it went in perhaps the year's most vicious political contest, the fight for the Arizona Republican nomination to succeed retiring G.O.P. Senator Paul Fannin. Last week that contest ended when Steiger, by a margin...
...work be stopped. The Americans refused. A few minutes later, a truckload of some 30 additional North Korean troops arrived at the scene. An officer shouted "Chukyo!" -the order to kill. The North Koreans suddenly swarmed over the Americans and South Koreans, assaulting them with metal pikes, axes and ax handles. When the attack was over, two American officers, Captain Arthur G. Bonifas,* 33, and Lieut. Mark T. Barrett, 25, were dead of massive head injuries and stab wounds; four other Americans and five South Koreans were wounded. North Korea announced that five of its soldiers were wounded...
...ballet, Fall River Legend, New York Times Dance Critic Clive Barnes once wrote, "I would prefer to play pinochle, which is all the more surprising since I have never played pinochle in my life." In the line of duty, however, Barnes attended another performance of the ballet (about the ax-wielding Lizzie Borden) and wrote a glowing review of Marcia Haydée, who was guest dancer with the American Ballet Theater. Unpleased was Ballerina Sallie Wilson, the ABT regular who has danced the lead role impeccably for many seasons without getting what she considers to be a fair shake...