Word: calvins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johnny can't read anymore, or Mary can't spell, or kids aren't being taught arithmetic." Voting against bigger school budgets also represents one of the few direct ways that citizens can express their anger at a seemingly endless spiral of rising taxes. Basically, says Calvin Rossi, legislative representative of the California Teachers' Association, the voters "are not saying no to the schools. They are saying no to higher property taxes. Turning down school budgets and bond issues is the only way they can register their protest...
...clergy, Homer, his own New England roots, Calvin, and even the President of the U.S.-seen in the White House swimming pool...
...When he was dragged from the plane at Le Bourget 33 hours and 30 minutes later, legend insists that he said: "Well, here we are." He was mobbed by the public and feted by the great (he had to borrow a suit to meet the President of France). President Calvin Coolidge sent a U.S. Navy cruiser to bring him home, and was waiting for him at the foot of the Washington Monument when he arrived. U.S. Ambassador to France Myron Herrick spoke for most when he declared: "He stood forth amidst clamor and crowds, the very embodiment of fearless, kindly...
...which the two pianos were tuned a quarter tone apart-was a repeat of a program put on by the Contemporary Music Society at Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum, where it was such a success that Columbia Records decided to record it. Three young New York composers-Teo Macero, Calvin Hampton and Donald Lybbert-wrote new scores for the occasion in which colliding lines sometimes sent out strangely affecting shivers of dissonance. But the most musical mo- ments were heard in three piano pieces by the late eccentric genius of 20th century American music, Charles Ives, who used quarter tones...
Many experts believe that the new rule actually will hamper shorter men-who use the dunk shot as a means of combating taller defenders such as Alcindor. In fact one of the most prolific dunkers in college basketball last season was Niagara Freshman Calvin Murphy, who stands only...