Word: enoughs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...extension to two years was made by Iowa's freshman Democrat Leonard Wolf, 33, backed by a large group of young Congressmen, including many first-termers. A voice vote was taken on Wolf's two-year amendment and declared lost. But it was more than close enough to call for a standing vote-which Democrat Wolf did not demand. His explanation: "I did not ask for a standing vote because many of the young men were bucking their leaders and I didn't want to embarrass them...
...played a command performance in an Army barbershop last March-began to let a little more of their hair be cut off. Their short-haired opposites took second looks at the fraternity boys home for Thanksgiving and Christmas vacations. Compromise result clearly evident last week: the "Princeton cut," long enough to part, too short to need much combing...
...Central High School. Last week the South turned out of the blind alley and down the rocky road toward gradual acceptance of public-school integration with a competent new driver at the wheel. When Integration Day came to Virginia, white-maned Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr., lawyer enough to admit the legal death of his massive-resistance laws (TIME, Feb. 9), deployed elements of his 653-man state police force to prevent the rowdies from taking over and to give muscle to the general respect for law and order. Result: a state of order that made Virginia proud, Arkansas envious...
...crowd roared back. "Vive I'indépendance!" "Vive I'Afrique!" he shrieked in a voice close to frenzy. Once again, the cry was three times repeated. There was no reason for Toure to do more. The crowd had seen and heard him, and that was enough...
...made his dramatic offer to the French African territories: they could have the choice between 1) complete independence, 2) autonomy within the French Community, or 3) the status of a department of France. Toure charged that the whole idea of a French Community-which came close, but not close enough, to the British Commonwealth-would only continue "our status of perpetual dependence, our status of indignity, our status of insubordination." When De Gaulle stopped off at Conakry on his swift tour of Africa before the referendum, Toure thundered in his presence: "We prefer poverty in liberty to riches in slavery...