Word: crow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Patrons of the College's central kitchen may have been eating crow, under the alias "chicken salad," during fall and spring migration seasons, it was learned over the weekend...
...check with local ornithologists lent credence to the crow hypothesis. The North American fish-crow (Corvus ossifragus) does migrate about this time, the experts said, and one might well have lost his way in or around Kirkland House...
When school opened in Tucson, Ariz, this fall, Superintendent Robert D. Morrow had reason to feel uneasy. He had never wanted to be "either a heel or a hero," but heel or hero he was destined to be. Morrow had been trying to get rid of Jim Crow in the city's public schools for the past six months-ever since the state legislature passed a law leaving the decision up to local communities...
Elsewhere, the case against Jim Crow ran into some snags. ¶ On opening day in San Antonio, ten Negro boys & girls showed up at five different white schools, asked to be admitted because their own schools did not have equal facilities. The principals all refused. ¶ The University of North Carolina's first Negro students found that they were free to eat and study with whites, but not to cheer. At football games, they were barred from the cheering section, herded into special end-zone seats...
...cures for everything from bellyache to heartache. In treating mal de toloache (an intestinal disorder), the curandera (see cut) wraps a snakeskin around the patient's head, opens the doors and windows so that the evil spirits can escape, and then chases the spirits by making crosses with crow feathers...