Word: bypass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kenya might logically bypass the sixth form and let secondary graduates into the Royal College. "We are wasting people in the name of standards," says Chief Education Officer K. K. Mwendwa. But new nations understandably hesitate to lower the standards of what they have that is good, and until Kenya can build a substantial link between primary schools and colleges, it seems fated to go on being a strange combination of the adequate, the inadequate and the opulent...
...Neill predicted last night that opponents to the bill would try to stretch the hearings and filibuster in the Senate debate. He said that the House discharge petition, although lacking enough signatures to bypass the Rules Committee, will exert sufficient pressure to bring early passage of the bill next year...
...nothing short of critical. Traditionally, the little daily got first crack at the fledgling newsman, who found it difficult to start anywhere but at the bottom, and who knew, besides, that he could learn the ropes faster there. Now, however, the new man with any promise at all can bypass a humble apprenticeship. He does not have to start at the bottom-and seldom does...
When he actually found himself campaigning nine years later, Ike says he tried to avoid Republican embarrassment over the noisy Senator Joseph McCarthy by asking that his campaign train bypass Wisconsin. Ike felt an added personal embarrassment: high among McCarthy's list of "traitors" was Ike's old boss and longtime friend, General George C. Marshall. But the campaign managers routed him into the state anyway and sat him on a platform with McCarthy himself. Why did Ike drop from his speech a tribute to Marshall? The professional politicians pointed out that he had already defended Marshall...
Success in such broadsides varies. But hitting all stores concurrently is never as potent as the single-shot selective buying staged by Northern Negroes for job equality. Last year 300 Detroit ministers asked their congregations to bypass Tip Top bread and Borden's milk, and alerted nonchurchgoers among Detroit's 400,000 Negroes with catchy leaflets ("Lock the Gate. Elsie Won't Cooperate"). Negroes were soon hired or upgraded not only by those companies but by 40 more who got the message. Philadelphia ministers have singled out, among others, A. & P., Sun Oil, Tasty Baking...