Word: equality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tear the thing down," urged another citizen, interjecting among these four words an equal number of obscenities. Hizzoner and Monseigneur dismounted from the bulldozer. The Annunciators, noticeably weakened by their previous selection, began a prolonged drum roll...
Instead, the solution lay in making "some tough choices" in nonessential, nonmilitary federal programs. "Now, by whatever amount savings fail to equal the additional costs of security, our total expenditures will go up. Our people will rightly demand it. They will not sacrifice security to worship a balanced budget. . . Some savings may still be squeezed out through the wringer method. But the savings of the kind we need can come about only through cutting out or deferring entire categories of activities. This will be one of the hardest and most distasteful tasks that the coming session of Congress must face...
...Macon Theater was the first major business to close its doors-to both its "separate but equal" wings. For food, Negroes queued up at small Negro-owned markets or shared rides to neighboring Auburn and Columbus. Tuskegee's Fortune Fish Market shut down. Then Cooper's Market, on the town square, folded, along with a Texaco service station and the David Lee Clothing Store. White clerks began counting their days at idle five-and-ten counters. Some clerks lost their jobs. Merchants advertised special sales, open credit, looked in vain for expected "sympathy motorcades" of white shoppers from...
...appointment okayed by Pepe ("Still the most wonderful man I've ever met") and settled into a seat on the Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee until the Eleventh General Assembly session ended last March. For her successor in the current session, Ambassador Canas found someone of equal qualifications and charm. His choice: New York-born Karen Olsen de Figueres, 27, President Figueres' wife since...
...Teachers Association declared that only 25% of the city's high school science teachers and 40% of the mathematics teachers have the proper licenses to teach in their fields. In a refreshing stand for a teachers' organization, it also denounced the single-salary schedule, which, in giving equal pay to teachers, no matter where or what they teach, has removed "the incentive to qualify for the high school teaching license...