Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rock, Butler submitted, that was not the fault of the school board, which had labored to make integration work. The board's dilemma was similar to that of a drayman, he explained, who was ordered to go from "Point A" to "Point B," and in doing so, to cross a bridge over a deep chasm. The bridge, however, had collapsed. Would it be right, asked he, to require the drayman to make the trip...
This early game was known as the "Boston game," a sort of cross between rugby and a free-for-all. A curious feature was that a player could run and throw or pass the ball only if he were being pursued by an opponent. When the opposing player gave up pursuit he called out to the runner, who had to stop and kick the ball...
...primary day Californians voted by the millions against the brawling Republicans (TIME, June 16). For the first time in the 45-year history of California's famed cross-filing primary system, Democrats voted a straight party line, giving handsome pluralities to nearly all Democratic candidates, including Senatorial Candidate Engle. Pat Brown, predictably, led the way, walloping Bill Knowland by an astonishing 662,000 votes...
...money is not in the bank. But President Platt speaks optimistically: "Our problem is to sustain momentum, but the idea has taken hold. The kids have been dropping back all summer long to see how the new dorm was going up, and to meet the new faculty. Cross-fertilizing the sciences and humanities is looking less like an impossibility...
...which provides no more than a modest hearse, a quick ceremony. Those who want to depart in style can, for a price (as high as $3,000), have black crape hung from the church's inner walls and black crape muffling the pews, black drapery with a white cross behind the altar, additional functionaries in cocked hats and a requiem Mass with 60 priests, acolytes and singers...