Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...patois prevalent in many state schools. Yet public schools are also so costly ($1,200 yearly at Harrow) that many U parents are switching over to state schools, particularly at the primary level. At one brand-new school near London's fashionable South Kensington, the curb is lined with Bentleys, Jaguars and nannies when classes let out each afternoon. Says one U mother: "If I can get this school's facilities for nothing, why should I pay to send my child to some school in a stuffy converted mansion...
Shortly before 1 o'clock one morning in early August, U.S. Army Sergeant Dale McCuistion, 27, driving through the streets of Izmir, Turkey, headquarters of NATO land forces in southeastern Europe, was crowded over to the curb. Men in plain clothes poured out of an unmarked civilian car and a Jeep, yanked McCuistion out of his station wagon. Convinced that he was about to be robbed, McCuistion put up a fight, but was soon overpowered and hustled off to a dungeonlike room underneath an old stable...
...could not buy enough school buildings from the state, because of reversion clauses specified by the original land donors; it could not begin to pay for new buildings. It could not keep teachers in the state during the changeover, or raise salaries high enough to attract new ones, or curb grafters with paws in the poorly policed tuition-grant till. What Little Rock also proved last year is that new industries shun a community that closes public schools; not a single one set up shop; only six firms (including two moving companies) reported higher earnings...
Whatever his record this year, the best seems yet to come for Rocky. His happy combination of mental zeal and physical weal long ago caught the approving eye of Boston's great Ted Williams, who has tried to get the young muscleman to curb his passion for bashing the ball-any ball -and to wait for a good pitch. Says Williams: "Some day Rocky is going to take the league apart...
Japanese trade interests in the U.S. will be represented by Thomas E. Dewey's law firm under a one-year $100,000 contract signed last week. Dewey is expected to help fight moves to curb Japanese imports...