Word: gravest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...teacher of history and government in one of the large high schools in Norfolk, I wish to thank you for your very excellent article on "Virginia-The Gravest Crisis" [Sept. 22]. It gives a clear picture of our state political philosophy. If our secondary schools in Norfolk are closed by these laws, approximately 10,000 children will be denied an education. These children are going to be some of the leaders of the U.S., and our country's future depends on them. Closing the schools, destroying public education, and defying federal law is not helping provide sound leadership...
...things, was ready to preside over the dissolution of the school system which Jefferson established. For a close study of the motives that led James Lindsay Almond to the point of ending what Thomas Jefferson started and the complex legal strategy he was using, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, "The Gravest Crisis...
...public schools, blindly following a legalistic road that might well lead to the violence that Virginia's leaders most deplore? U.S. Senator Harry Byrd, Virginia's benign but absolute political boss, accurately measures the dimensions of Virginia's problem. "We face," he said recently, "the gravest crisis since the War Between the States...
...leaders of the Atlantic world had met to confront together the gravest challenge their alliance had ever faced. They conferred, decided, and departed to their several countries with no great acclaim...
Next week, in the drafty, shabby-modern building in Paris that is NATO headquarters, the leaders of 15 nations will gather at the call of President Dwight Eisenhower and Britain's Prime Minister Macmillan to examine their alliance and to consider its posture in the face of the gravest threat it has ever confronted. Not since Versailles will so many heads of Western governments have gathered in such portentous conclave...