Word: garrette
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Garrett picked up Leverett's five points with a 4-2 win over Winthrop's Bill Fitz in the 160-pound class, and in the next match. Tom Dryer decisioned fellow Quincy, grappler Os Erickson. In a battle of Kirkland teammates, Jim Dunn pinned Edward Lewis to decide the 177-pound champion...
...argument of the defense attorneys and the superintendent of public instruction was that "white teachers could not understand the Nigra mind" and therefore would not be able to teach them effectively in integrated classrooms. The defense quoted heavily from the theories of white intellectual supremacy as expounded by Henry Garrett and Virginia Shuie...
Some Negro girls see in the Black Power movement a turning of the tide. "I really support the black cultural revolution," says Howard University's Stephanie Garrett. "Here they hold up the black woman and say, 'Look how beautiful she is.'" Other Negro girls are more leary. Huffs a Manhattan Negro career girl: "The 'black is beautiful' idea has affected very few Negro males. They still think that kinky hair and Negro lips are unattractive. A white woman is still a status symbol. It is for my brother. He married...
...Mirrors. Amy Garrett was the first child to be chosen through an intriguing new adoption method. Video tape promises to eliminate much of the potential trauma of adoption procedures while making it far easier for agencies to unite prospective parents and children from different parts of the country. It was Norman W. Paget, 45, executive director of the Erie County Children's Aid Society, who thought of employing video tape in adoption after watching the instant replays used for televised pro-football games...
...Garrett video-tape showing was private, but most "special needs" children-those who are older, have handicaps or come from racial minority groups-are so hard to place that the Los Angeles County Department of Adoptions has taken to broadcasting their availability on commercial TV. Since October, the department has shown 64 such children on a once-weekly quarter-hour segment of Ben Hunter's Matinee, a program of old movies interspersed with talk. Result: up to 35 phone calls immediately following each show and 34 of the children adopted, including a two-year-old boy with eye trouble...