Word: conducted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aroused in Nashville, achieved a notable triumph. By week's end even the weakening rabble-rousers were beginning to reconsider. No Nashville white had shouted more loudly against integration than a burly, tattooed man named George H. Akins, who had been arrested by the police after some disorderly conduct. As he stood trial in City Judge Doyle's court, his eight-year-old daughter standing beside him began to cry, anguished by the spectacle of her father at bay. The man saw the child's distress, reached out one hand and smoothed down her blonde bangs, pulled...
...amount of integration spread over the longest period of time." As recently as last April, two new school-board members were overwhelmingly elected with their support of the integration plan as the chief issue. The Little Rock school board had selected the nine Negro children carefully, considering intelligence, achievement, conduct, health -even the shade of their skins...
...cruel day was far from over. When she left school, the crowd was waiting, louder and even more threatening than before. Sticks flew at her (Liston Wood Flowers, 18, was arrested for throwing one). She was spat upon (Patricia Elizabeth Smith, 15, was arrested on charges of disorderly conduct after spitting full in her face). Dorothy Counts kept her eyes ahead, walked quietly, calmly to a waiting...
...popular opinion was immediately and instinctively against seeming to condone homosexuality, an important minority of staid and conservative opinion favored changes in the law. The Times declared: "Adult sexual behavior not involving minors, force, fraud or public indecency belongs to the realm of private conduct, not of criminal law." Said the Spectator: "The present law on this point is utterly irrational and illogical." The London Economist thought that "private homosexual behavior between adults does no medical harm to themselves and no harm of any sort to others." Also in support of changing the law were the Church of England, which...
...office he has replaced quill pens with IBM machines, and instead of being three years behind in its work, it is now only a month behind. He changed the rules so that fishermen can now get a license by producing only an identity card instead of a good-conduct certificate, a notarized proof of signature and a police reference showing no penal record. Between helicopter swoops on unsuspecting offices all over Italy, Medici proclaimed his goal: "Democracy will become a reality only when any citizen can write to any state functionary with the certainty of receiving a clear, quick, satisfactory...