Word: freshets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...return of New York's long-strikebound newspapers brought from columnists a renewed freshet of negative pronouncements upon the New Frontier. "Frustration and stalemate," wrote the Times's James Reston, "now seem to be the order of the day for the Administration.'' Echoed the Herald Tribune's Robert J. Donovan: "The President is beset by stalemate and sluggishness...
...bulletins; the New Haven's throwaway prayerfully asked its passengers not to drop them on the floor. With what it called "characteristic spontaneity," Harvard's student newspaper, the Crimson, inundated Manhattan with 10,000 free copies of a "New York Edition"-2,000 more than the Crimson freshet exported from Cambridge during the 1958 strike...
...public schools these days, rich suburbs run lively experiments while big cities run hard to stand still. One happy exception is Pittsburgh, where in four years School Superintendent Calvin E. Gross, 43, has sent a freshet of ideas throughout the schools. Last week that record got Gross a new job: boss of New York City schools, the biggest public school system...
...spring thaw in interest rates last week showed signs of turning into a freshet of easier money. For the third week in a row, the average yield of 91-day Treasury bills dropped sharply, hit 3.03%, lowest since the 2.87% yield last May 25, and well below the record 4.67% just before Christmas. Other short-and long-term rates were also well down from their peaks...
...egalitarian revolution in the South sometimes moves like a spring flood, seeping over and around the barriers, running ahead of the sluggish channels dredged by the law. One afternoon last fortnight, such a spring freshet bubbled up in the textile city of Greensboro, N.C. (pop. 125,000) when four young college students-freshmen from the Negro Agricultural and Technical College-walked into the F.W. Woolworth store on South Elm Street and quietly sat down at the lunch counter. The white patrons eyed them warily, and the white waitresses ignored their studiously polite requests for service. The students continued...