Word: beatness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Little Rock, Ark., muddling along in its 15th month of school segregation crisis, last week elected a new board of education to replace five members who resigned Nov. 14, plus a sixth, Segregationist Dale Alford, who opposed and beat Congressman Brooks Hays in the general elections. The big surprise: three of the victors are moderates on the integration question, won despite hot-blooded opposition by Segregationist Governor Orval Faubus, who proclaimed on election eve that the three were really integrationists. Said defeated Candidate W. F. Rector, another moderate who was defeated by a pro-Faubus candidate: the moderates' victory...
...DUTY TO GOD AND MY COUNTRY, TO BE SQUARE, AND TO ... Alive Was Kenny Travers, 7, whose mother told a reporter, "I hugged him and hugged him" -whereupon Kenny interrupted, "And you said I can get candy whenever I want ." Two days later police watched understandingly as a man beat his hands against the door of Our Lady of the Angels, crying: "Come on out now, son. I'm out here waiting...
...normally grumpy face wreathed in smiles after the conference's formal endorsement of prohibitory nuclear tests, a line that the Russians have so long beat their propaganda drums for, Soviet Delegate Semyon Tsarapkin told reporters, "I am optimistic. We have adopted Article i." And how soon would the conference adopt Article 2? "We shall...
...desired place and time, designers expect to employ a retrorocket, which will be fired to reduce its speed at the chosen moment and spot. A parachute will slow it further, and a radio will shout an S O S. Finding the satellite with its undeveloped films or its beat-up "primate" should not be much harder than finding a missile's nose cone...
...messy, and too much of a mind for both. So crammed is his scene with lives near precipices and gutters as to cry out for someone merely in a rut. His people, as they talk and philosophize, become embarrassingly florid. His heroine is both a Jazz Age and a Beat Generation type: the self-pitying, self-dramatizing, greedily restless girl who destroys others on the way to destroying herself. But the play's realistic-romantic approach to her is blurred and unsure...