Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shoulder to shoulder under a purple umbrella, two girls left their porticoed high school one drizzly afternoon in Washington. D.C. They seemed identical -lumpy teen-agers with bandannas and sagging sox-except that one was a Negro, the other white. Last week, as other Southern cities rumbled angrily (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), such quiet scenes in the nation's capital spoke volumes about school integration-which Washington once viewed with frightened alarm...
...some of the world's least lavish and most demanding scholarships. Each year, 300 young lycée graduates (average age: 18½) get $70 each, and certificates explaining their mission. Then the Zellidja scholars are thrust off to begin research projects, pledged not to use any money except the $70 stipend. They are on their honor to live by their wits...
...Mile Reaction. This discovery, made in April of 1956, set Holman and his visitor, Dr. Nicholas T. Werthessen, jumping like baboons with excitement. Its importance lay in the fact that previously (except for rare cases in monkeys and expensive great apes) no animal had been known to develop arterial disease like a human being's, despite ingenious laboratory tricks. Researchers have learned much from rabbits, rats and chickens, but findings from these lower forms of life cannot be applied simply and directly to human diseases. The baboon, despite its lousy pelt, its foul temper and its embarrassingly lurid hind...
...their Geiger counters, detected radioactivity at the motel and the drugstore that Johnny had visited, ordered a thorough scrubdown. State officials carried on, traced everybody with whom Johnny had so much as shaken hands that morning, got them started on the scrubbing routine. By week's end everybody except Johnny was in the clear...
...Hara seems to agree that the assets and liabilities all but cancel out, leaving a chilling desolation of spirit in which futility is challenged only by fatalism. Of Alfred Eaton, as of Cozzens' Arthur Winner, it can be said that he achieves a kind of strength through joylessness except that with O'Hara's Eaton the licked wounds never quite heal...