Word: chalkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...natty brown suit parked his old Ford in an alley in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, and after glancing furtively around, hurried into a dingy building that had once been a garage Under his arm was a small blackboard wrapped in newspapers; in his pockets were bits of chalk; and awaiting him inside the building were 38 Negro children, sitting silent on wooden benches. Before he turned to them, however, the man first carefully locked the door. He had good reason: his is an illegal school...
...Academy gone to West Point, they would have found themselves confronted by a bewildering type of catechism. In the Hell on the Hudson, the new plebes would have had to answer questions such as: "How is the cow?" (Answer: "Sir, she walks, she talks, she's full of chalk; the lacteal fluid extracted from the female of the bovine species is highly prolific to the nth degree.") And if they were asked: "What do plebes rank?", they would of course have replied: "Sir, the Superintendent's dog, the Commandant's cat, the waiters in the mess hall...
TIME'S story on Walter Reuther [June 20] ... is in itself G.A.W. (Grand Award Writing). Chalk up a victory against Communist propaganda, which keeps yowling about the dirty deals capitalists give labor. Chalk up a victory for common sense, which averted a disastrous auto strike. And chalk up a victory for the nation as a whole, because a stabilized wage means a more stabilized economy...
...British Empire Medal was awarded to James Philip Bullen, chief officer in Her Majesty's Prison at Edinburgh, to Alfred Chalk, Inspector of Flushing for the London County Council, and to some 300 other similarly deserving subjects...
...when he was five the wordless, spastic child grabbed a piece of chalk in the toes of his left foot, and showed that he had control of one limb. Between confinements, his indomitable mother taught him the alphabet. When he was seven Christy spelled out MOTHER. It was one of the proudest moments that Christy Brown, now 22, reports in his autobiography, My Left Foot (Simon & Schuster; $3). From that moment, though unschooled, Christy went on to painting and writing stories, always with his left foot. Relying on that same limb, he had himself thrown into a canal...