Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...state's public schools, he intends to invoke Virginia's new state laws of "massive resistance," closing public schools, transferring students, state funds to new private schools, etc. Said Almond: "There's no such thing as limited integration. It's all integration-open the door and let us in, we'll do the rest and destroy you as rapidly as we can in the administrative processes of education...
...ready to go?" An aide soothed him: "Don't worry, Pat. Everybody's here." Brown looked carefully around just to make sure. "Well," he explained, "I want to get out there while people are still going to work." He spun, led the way out the door, clambered into a Plymouth station wagon. Edmund Gerald Brown, 53, Democratic candidate for Governor of California, odds-on favorite in what may be the most important contest of Election Year 1958, was on his way to a 6:15 a.m. appointment with destiny. He did not intend to be late...
...White House servant, tray in hand, tapped on the door of the Upstairs Red Room. Where did the guest want his breakfast served? "Would you take it to the President's room?" asked the guest. Moments later, the guest followed the servant across the hall to the spacious south bedroom occupied by the President of the U.S. He entered and found Dwight Eisenhower in shirtsleeves, already wading through the morning papers and his usual breakfast beefsteak (rare). At sight of the visitor, Ike's face broke into a grin of particular welcome. He waved his guest into...
Last week, speaking to a closed-door caucus of his Republican Party in Lahore, Prime Minister Noon let it be known that there was something more to his remarks than that. By promising "active cooperation'' with other Moslem countries. Noon hoped to cut the ground from under the opposition leaders who charge that Pakistan has "sold out" to the "Anglo-American bloc." He was not turning against the West exactly, but was inching closer to Nasser's Arab nationalism. If Iraq wants to merge with Nasser's United Arab Republic, he asked, "what reason...
...drama of the Russian Revolution has usually been annotated by one of the actors, the actors' friends, or the jilted stage-door Johnnies who haunt the theater of history. Blame, guilt, hatred, self-accusation and self-aggrandizement taint most such accounts of revolution. Alan Moorehead's book is different. It is a clear-eyed rendering by an expert reviewer who makes the drama come alive again and establishes some new areas of truth. The ideological burdens the book carries belong to the narrative, not the narrator, and it contains no haunted hindsights...