Word: groves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...closing of the schools was perfectly legal. To all intents and purposes, the citizens of Pleasant Grove had done the deed themselves-but they had done it unintentionally. What they had really wanted to do was to place their schools under the control of their big and wealthy neighbor, Dallas, which had already taken over everything but their schools...
There is really nothing strange about the teen-agers of Pleasant Grove, Texas, but they were behaving in a strange way last week. Instead of the usual signs-"Caution-No Brakes" "Don't Laugh Mister. Your Daughter May Be Inside!" -they had daubed their jalopies with the earnest words: "We Want Our Schools." The slogan was cried at special mass meetings, chanted through the streets in impromptu parades. But in spite of all the agitation, the doors of Pleasant Grove's six schools remained firmly closed all week, and no one, from the superintendent on down, seemed...
Bottled in Bonds. For some months Pleasant Grove had been considering the transfer Many people were convinced that if Dallas would only take over, better schools and lower taxes would result. Furthermore, the Dallas school board hinted that it might eventually be willing to annex Pleasant Grove. Then the Dallas board began running into trouble with its new $24 million bond issue. By Texas law, the Dallas district could not expand an inch until all its bonds were sold...
From its inception the tradition has battled a host of troubles. Enthusiasts of the custom have long engaged in a gentlemanly scramble to maintain its greater and lesser traditions. The Boston fire laws of the post Cocoanut Grove era have since snuffed out the Table's candles that on its opening night in the thirties supplied the only light in the dining hall when the power failed twice. During the war, the Table's original customs nearly disappeared as a shortage of help forced patrons to abandon their tuxedos and stand in line for their food with the rest...
Heap of Lies. In a Grove takes the form of testimony before a police commissioner. The body of a samurai, presumably murdered, has been found in a forest glade. In turn, a bandit, the samurai's wife, lesser witnesses, and the dead samurai himself (through a medium) tell what they know about it. Up to a point, the stories almost fit. The bandit has stalked the samurai and his wife through the forest, decoyed him with a promise of buried loot, trussed him up and raped his wife before his eyes. But when it comes to the samurai...