Word: defunction
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After graduating from Harvard in 1950, Lodge caught on as a cub reporter for the Boston Herald (his father had started out as a reporter for the now defunct Boston Evening Transcript). In 1953, Lodge got a chance to interview Secretary of Labor James Mitchell, asked him 96 probing questions, and was offered a job in the department's public information office...
...Judge Irving R. Kaufman found New Rochelle guilty of deliberate gerrymandering to keep a 94%-Negro school Negro. As a result. New Rochelle was compelled under the 14th Amendment to allow the Negroes free access to white schools. More than half the Negroes transferred, leaving their old school near-defunct. Now the N.A.A.C.P. is battling for desegregation in at least 60 target areas from Connecticut to California: ∙Nine communities, from Newark. N.J., to Eloy, Ariz., have voluntarily desegregated. In more than 14 other communities, about half around New York City, the N.A.A.C.P. has filed federal suits or complaints with...
Lepers & Straitjackets. William Conway is not an easy case to diagnose. His adult life has shown only the characteristic dislocations of his age and time: the shock of World War II. a defunct marriage, a lucrative brokerage business to which he has become partly committed without any particular conviction. "It was a life," Conway sums it up. "one did not for instance interrupt in order to go out and nurse lepers. You knew the odds were you would get leprosy and become a burden to the nuns." At 41, Conway does not know where he is heading. He is troubled...
...year-old she was inclined to be noisy and inattentive. She "needs to be very busy or she will gain superficial social superiority," was the comment on one of them, adding that "at heart she is kindly." Ceezee ended her academic career at Fermata, a very social, now defunct girls' school at Aiken, S.C., where she did best at French and Latin, worst at cooking and sewing, and admits: "I spent most of my time riding...
Accent (CBS, 1-1:30 p.m.). Yale Classicist Frank Brown discusses Ostia, the defunct city that was once the thriving seaport of ancient Rome...