Word: damned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Knight boy, you been misled. You been listenin' to that damn communist over there, but boy you don't know what he got in the back of his mind. You ought to be proud of your race. You ought to be ashamed, messing around with this integration trash...
Burns's answer was to make the place bigger yet smaller-large enough to compete with the well-equipped state schools, but not so monolithic. He changed the name from college to university. Then-after visiting Oxford and Cambridge ("draftiest damn week of my life") for guidance-Burns set out to expand the university through "cluster" colleges: small, autonomous schools with ivied walls, beamed ceilings, great halls and high tables, the whole Oxbridge bit. The first to be opened was Raymond College, a $3,000,000 complex of seven buildings with more than 4,800 crop-rich acres...
...damn much concrete!" roared one girl, and everyone following her took up the complaint. The plans call for large areas of pavement among the modern buildings along Garden Street, now an avenue of grass and off-campus houses...
...primary results pleased Mrs. Louise Day Hicks, a matronly lawyer who currently chairs the school committee and repeatedly charges that Negro criticism of schools embarrasses "the home town of the President." Equally happy was Committeeman Joseph Lee, scion of the Lee Higginson investment house family, who calls the schools "damn good." Now largely up to them is a crucial decision: finding a successor for School Superintendent Frederick Gillis, 70, who retires this week...
...unlike many of its sister Southern states, Alabama suffered few ravages from Union troops; indeed, the most notable battle came on the water, with Farragut's damn-the-torpedoes victory in Mobile Bay. What the war did do was rip the foundations from beneath Alabama's cotton-based economy. And what the Civil War did not finish, the boll weevil...