Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prostrate Form. An organization named STOP (the Committee to Stop This Outrageous Purge) was quickly formed, just as quickly got 9,603 signatures on a petition demanding the ouster of the segregationists. In retaliation, segregationists formed CROSS (the Committee to Retain Our Segregated Schools), which filed its own petition demanding the recall of the moderates...
...philosophies-"the philosophy of the dollar and . . . the philosophy of human values." Minutes later, the House rejected the Herlong bill, 203 to 177. Charlie Halleck lost only six or seven of the voting Republicans, but such was the effectiveness of the Rayburn-McCormack effort that Southern Democrats did not cross over in nearly enough numbers...
Died. Dudley Allen Buck, 32, exuberant M.I.T. electrical engineer and miniaturization expert, who developed the tiny cryotron to replace the transistor, was working on a cross-film cryotron (diameter: four-millionths of an inch) that would reduce a computer from room to matchbox size; of virus pneumonia; in Winchester, Mass...
...takes his learning where he finds it, slowly works out a philosophy ("Never Make an Offer. Budge only for Folding Money"). But he is no cynic, and he cross-questions would-be disillusioners sharply: "Now accordin' to you the newspapers ain't reliable. Is The Times lies? But if it's gonna lie anyway, why is it so borin'?" At eleven, Horatio knew "the local civics of the vice squad ... In architecture, how to make time bombs; in interpersonal relations, how to make zip guns ... In philosophy he knew that the Future Lies Ahead...
...cross-country realm, Jared E. Fitzgerald '61, who always has had his own transportation paid by the team, pointed out that "some of the kids go out for the team in the hope of doing a little travelling." For the Cornell trip, however, only seven runners went by plane, and the others were forced to drive...