Word: block
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boys and girls alike. By noon, the rabble outside had grown to 400. Cheered on by their womenfolk, Grenada's vigilantes savagely attacked terrified Negro children as they emerged from school. They trampled Richard Sigh, 12, in the dust, breaking a leg. Another twelve-year-old ran a block-long gauntlet of flailing whites, emerged with bleeding face and torn clothes. Still other Negro youngsters were thrown to the ground and kicked. "That'll teach you, nigger!" grunted one assailant. "Don't come back tomorrow." For good measure, the rowdies pummeled and kicked four white...
Belated Arrests. Nor did the mayhem end when Mississippi Governor Paul Johnson, ignoring protests of several local officials, sent in 150 state troopers. Next day, a number of troopers studiously read newspapers a block away while white rowdies broke windows of four cars carrying Negro youngsters to school, chased and beat the occupants. As tension mounted, the Federal Government mercifully stepped in. At Oxford, Miss., U.S. District Judge Claude Clayton issued a restraining order warning Grenada officials to protect the Negro children or face federal contempt charges. With that, the state troopers surrounded the schools to protect Negro students, thereby...
...thing those exciting college boys should keep in mind, though. With luck, they'll wind up as pros themselves one day and have to learn how to do such boring things as block and tackle and hang onto the ball...
...Diego, where the hometown Chargers played the Buffalo Bills-the same team that demolished them 23-0 for the A.F.L. title last year. The Chargers were bent on revenge, and they got it, as Flanker Lance Alworth caught a pass for one touchdown, set up another with a crushing block, and San Diego...
Dorms with Classrooms. Florida State's Dean E. Laurence Chalmers is confident that the clustering will lead to "greater student rapport and a greater commitment to learning," because that is what happened to students in a trial run last year. Without advance word to anyone, university officials "block-registered" 30 freshmen in English, math, history and social-science classes, just to test the idea. Students quickly caught on, dubbed themselves "the group," got together for pizza parties and bowling. The teachers spontaneously coordinated assignments so that an English essay, for example, would deal with an idea being developed...