Word: chapters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your March 19 story of Mordecai Johnson and Howard University is a bright chapter in the history of American education. You can add to the list of distinguished alumni of Howard the name of Charles Dunbar Sherman, Finance Minister of Liberia and Economic Adviser...
...Jacksonville: "There may be such a thing as wanting to be President too badly. And that may be one of the reasons why none of Kefauver's colleagues in the Senate and so few of the party leaders around the country have endorsed him." Then, citing his chapter and verse, Adlai accused Kefauver of missing vital congressional votes, planting the impression that Estes neglected legislation for electioneering...
...those kids was learning to think for himself. I thought that that was my job." Even Bein' God. Had he been willing to stick closer to grammar and spelling, all might have gone well for Richer. But he detested the regulation texts ("All workbook stuff-read the chapter, answer the questions, turn them in, then read the next chapter"), and if his pupils expressed curiosity about a topic, he was apt to get carried away. He assigned some strange themes (sample topic, taken from Green Pastures: "Even bein' God ain't no bed of roses"). He also...
...final, unique chapter in Ward's diplomatic education came in November 1948, when the Chinese Communists captured the Manchurian city of Mukden, where he was consul general. For seven months Ward was kept under house arrest, and Washington heard nothing from him. The State Department, determined at that point not to be beastly to the Chinese Reds, made no protest. Even when Ward and four of his aides were jailed on trumped-up charges (of having beaten up a former Chinese employee of the consulate), it was only after the Scripps-Howard newspapers launched a campaign against passive...
Lucy Crown keeps one in suspense at the end of every chapter. Will suburban housewife Lucy's summer indiscretion with a younger man turn her marriage to Oliver Crown into a lasting winter of discontent? Can the couple's 13-year-old son Tony grow into a healthy, normal American boy after he peeps through the cottage blinds and sees his mother in the arms and bed of his 20-year-old counselor-companion Jeff? Is humorless, self-contained Oliver to blame for it all be cause he treats his Hartford, Conn, printing plant as a religion...