Word: dimes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...South. Negro students were on the march last week in a widespread, nonviolent protest the likes of which the U.S. had never seen. In the eleven weeks since four young Negro college students staged the first sitdown demonstration against segregation at the lunch counter of a Woolworth five-and-dime store in Greensboro, N.C. (TIME, Feb. 22 et seq.), the lunch-counter movement had spread through the moderate border states and the diehard Deep South like a dry-summer forest fire in a stiff breeze...
...Greensboro. N.C., 45 students were arrested on trespass charges for refusing to leave the lunch counter at an S. H. Kress & Co. five-and-dime. Among them: Ezell Blair Jr., 18, leader of the original sit-in incident...
...Chattanooga, Tenn., students held sit-in demonstrations at four five-and-dime lunch counters...
...test failures would delay its operational status until too near the end of the diminishing bomber era, proposed a sweeping switch in spending to other defensive hardware (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). In the past, Diefenbaker had properly insisted that all Bomarc's failures were minor "nickel-and-dime" malfunctions, and pointed out that the U.S. was spending $500 million on it this year, while Canada had committed only $15 million for work on its two bases...
...wasn't exactly standing at a mission waiting for a handout when Lance came along," said the mother of Hollywood Starlet Jill (The Lost World) St. John. Last week, in fact, Jiil was standing in a flossy suite in San Francisco's Mark Hopkins Hotel when Five & Dime Heir Lance Reventlow, 24, came along and took her hand in marriage. It looked like a happy match all round. Lance's mother, Sextuple Bride Barbara Mutton, 47, apparently had no objections to Jill, 19, daughter of a well-to-do Beverly Hills electronics wiring maker of German-Jewish...