Word: break
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tune of Dixie: "In Arkansas, in the state of cotton/ Federal courts are good and rotten." At the intersection of 14th and Schiller Avenue the marchers came hard up against a thin line of Little Rock policemen. Four men of the mob rushed the line, trying to break through -and at that moment the clock seemed about to turn back two years to the race riots, incited by Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus, that brought federal troops into Little Rock and led to the city's high schools being closed for a year. But last week's result...
...Smith to keep the peace in Little Rock, and Orval Faubus could only stand ready to cash in on failure. If rioters could break through Smith's police line, Faubus could again declare an emergency. Already on his desk as the schools opened were orders calling out state police and instructing the National Guard to lock the schools...
...from being a polished ballplayer. His powerful throwing arm-he has one measured throw of 436 ft.-can be wildly inaccurate. At the plate Rocky will murder a baseball between his belt and knees, but still has trouble solving fast balls tight and high and sliders that break away, still tries to kill the ball instead of just meeting it for base hits. "You might as well talk to a wall as to Rocky," complains Lane. "He'll 'yes' you like crazy, and go right on trying for home runs." Cracks a Yankee coach: "They...
Just as if she cannot believe her success, Felicia sweats out each entrance with nail-gnawing tension. But once in the spotlight, the lady is a cool and practiced performer. The nervous novice who got her first big break six years ago as the unknown vocalist on Percy Faith's recorded sleeper, Song from Moulin Rouge, has since given herself the polish of a pro. No longer does she settle for the stiff, tight-backed stance, the black, high-necked dresses and Peter Pan collars with which she turned her earliest act into a vague imitation of French Songstress...
...recorded mating call of a bull ape. After that, for 14 hours, Florida radio listeners within range of Jacksonville's WAPE-are assaulted by the monotonous beat of rock 'n' roll. A three-minute trickle of news every two hours is the only relief; every station break is loud with the lovesick ape. The continuous uproar is so hypnotic that few who hear it seem anxious-or able-to turn it off. Last week one-year-old WAPE finished its fourth month as the top-rated station in a highly competitive nine-station town...