Word: children
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...skimping in a lot of little ways-buying cheaper meats, turning out unneeded lights, doling out quarters instead of dollars to their five children-Steelworker Frank Sekula, 41, and his wife Betty have managed to stretch their savings far enough to meet their necessary outlays without piling up any new debts. Betty Sekula, veteran of many strikes, has only a faint trace of bitterness in her voice when she says: "I don't think that either side in this strike is thinking of the betterment of the men. I don't see where we're going...
...Stanley Spector, 35, a professor of Far Eastern Affairs at St. Louis' Washington University, and to his family. She was Professor Specter's secretary and a dedicated scholar in Oriental studies (she could speak Mandarin); she had lived with Spector and his wife Juanita and three children since 1956, accompanied the Spector family to Singapore last year. Spector himself had flown home to St. Louis from Singapore, and his family, with Lynn, followed aboard Utrecht...
...paddies, and unloaded ships piled up in the harbors. Railroad workers were rushed to the docks, and train schedules became chaotic. Office workers went to the farms, and commerce staggered. Instead of performing military duties, soldiers were put to work digging ditches and raising pigs. Even the wives and children of army officers and enlisted men hoed cabbages and spread fertilizer...
...week's end, while Lepori dumbly awaited judgment, other Defense Ministry personnel officers were checking their records to see whether De Virgilio had worked the statutory 19 years, six months and one day. If not, his wife and children, like Lepori, will have no legal right to a pension...
...specific case at issue occurred in the rabidly segregationist Dollarway district near Pine Bluff (pop. 37,000), where three Negro students applied for immediate entrance to the all-white Dollarway High School. School officials refused, and a U.S. district court ordered the children admitted at once. The Dollarway school board countered by invoking the placement law, assigned the youngsters to a Negro school and appealed the case to the Circuit Court. The Negroes' next move: to prove, if they can, that the school board acted in bad faith...