Word: corners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ordered to integrate by a federal court order, got a year's delay because the term had already begun. The community used the year to good advantage. There were no formal meetings, sermons, speeches or editorials, but community leaders set up an informal living-room and street-corner campaign to tell the youngsters matter-of-factly that September would bring integration and they should make the best...
...meeting with Adenauer ended, Strauss shot out of the chancellery again, pulled up beside Hahlbohm's pedestal. "Give me your name," growled Franz Josef. "I shall see to it that you disappear from this corner." True to his threat, Strauss promptly fired off a pair of angry letters-one to the chief of Bonn's traffic police, another to the interior ministry of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. In the meantime, the police coolly ran a check on Driver Kaiser, turned up the fact that he had a record of five arrests on charges ranging from speeding...
...being satisfied more each year. I went to several churches on Sunday, and all were jammed. Outside the Baptist Church, a hundred or so people were standing in the sun, greeting each other, discussing the sermon-and other matters, including Lebanon and even Hungary-while a cop on the corner twirled his stick and whistled. I was told of, but did not see, leaflets which have appeared criticizing government policies. The Lubianka, the huge secret police building where in the '30s the lights burned most of every night, now looks nearly deserted, and, indeed, people who should know said...
...final time, Mexico's outgoing President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines draped the red, white and green sash of office across his shirt front, climbed aboard the ceremonial Packard and drove past cheering thousands to the Chamber of Deputies. Across the nation Mexicans gathered around television sets, radios, and street-corner loudspeakers for the last state of the nation address from a man whose honest, middle-reading administration had served the country well. "In each chapter," said Ruiz Cortines proudly, "the country will find a resume of what the Mexican people have accomplished since...
...producers came along, name of Hecht and Lancaster, who wanted to do a picture about a fat Italian butcher boy -a real sweet kid, but lonesome. Ernie read for the part, and he was in. This guy Ernie did not just play Marty; he was Marty, sitting around the corner saloon with his cronies, drinking beer and saying: "So waddayawanna do tonight...