Search Details

Word: cues (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...this reason, opposition is expected to be vocal, not violent, as the desegregated schools open this week. Taking their cue from State Superintendent of Education Dr. Garvin Johnston, most local school authorities have spent the past several weeks in a frenzy of activity, working to shift equipment and portable classrooms, pleading with teachers to remain on their jobs, and urging parents to give desegregation a chance. Though some picketing is anticipated, federal officials expect that at least two-thirds of the 30 districts affected will desegregate without serious incident. "The word has apparently gone out to the power structure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The South: Surrender in Mississippi | 1/12/1970 | See Source »

...Listen, you'll have to excuse me, but I have to get to the bank before it closes, and then go out shopping before my children come home. We can't live on TV dinners and frozen asparagus," she said, as if on cue...

Author: By David Sellinger, | Title: Coffee With 'A Lady of the Evening' | 1/8/1970 | See Source »

Previous | 110 | 111 | 112 | 113 | 114 | 115 | 116 | 117 | 118 | 119 | 120 | 121 | 122 | 123 | 124 | 125 | 126 | 127 | 128 | 129 | 130 | Next