Word: cliffes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beautiful country in the American West. Perhaps none of the scenery through which it flows is more impressive than Idaho's Snake River Birds of Prey Natural Area, a 33-mile stretch of water bordered on both sides by high-rise towers of volcanic rock and sheer sandstone cliffs, and inhabited by the densest nesting population of raptors, or birds of prey, anywhere in the world. Golden eagles perch on inaccessible crags; prairie and peregrine falcons launch themselves from cliff faces and soar into the high, crystalline desert sky. Eleven other species of raptor, from the diminutive robin-size...
...spur of the moment. For a few minutes, I stood in front of the guest book, drumming my pen, trying to think of a fake name, smiling weakly at Sister Wood. Finally, feeling more foolish than ever, I put down my first and middle names--"Cliff Myer...
...violence in Boston, Louisville and other cities. Placid it was, but last week the New Orleans-based Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals found it inadequate as well. Noting that at least 41 of 117 schools in central Dallas and 27 of 30 in the predominantly black Oak Cliff section remained unintegrated, the court sent the plan back to Dallas district court and demanded a new version...
Under the 1976 plan ordered by Federal District Court Judge William M. Taylor, the Dallas school district was divided into six subdistricts. Two were relatively isolated from downtown Dallas: Oak Cliff, 98% black; and Seagoville, 85% white. In those two areas, school officials promised that even though the races were segregated, they would get "equal" education−a promise that obviously ran counter to the spirit of the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision...
...those most directly involved, students and teachers, the prospect of renewed battles over the issue was hardly reassuring. "After a while, our kids are political pawns," lamented Yvonne Ewell, assistant superintendent of the predominantly black Oak Cliff subdistrict: "I just care about educating our students...