Word: courting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would have empowered the Attorney General to initiate suits to protect civil rights, including the right to attend integrated schools. Also dropped was a section empowering the Federal Government to aid local school authorities with desegregation problems-a section that would have given specific congressional endorsement to the Supreme Court's basic 1954 school-integration decisions...
Last week Kassem announced that a court would try the "anarchists" responsible for the Kirkuk "massacre" of at least 120 persons. Sixty members of the Communist-infiltrated Popular Resistance Force were haled before a court-martial on charges of murdering three Baghdad notables-the first proCommunists to stand trial in Iraq since the revolution of July...
...days, Norwegians heaped contempt on the old recluse they had once revered as "the giant of the North." Thousands of copies of his famed novels were mailed back to him or dumped on the doorstep of his south coast farmstead. Before he died in 1952, a Norwegian court blocked all the old man's bank accounts, imposed a fine of 425,000 kroner ($86,000), which was later reduced to 325,000 kroner...
...Said Mclntire last week of Ike's invitation to Khrushchev: "We cannot expect Almighty God to help us in our struggle for survival when we court the chief spokesman of the devil, who repudiates...
What else would Orval Faubus do? Few knew the answer. He might well get the legislature (reportedly, to meet this weekend) to pass a sheaf of school-closing acts, simply sign a new one as soon as the old one was thrown out of court. And his backwoods segregationist supporters might yet descend on the city in force when the integrated schools open this week. Said Little Rock's able Police Chief Eugene Smith, canceling all leaves: "We don't know what to expect. But we're going to be ready...