Word: happening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dean of Canterbury, tartly reported that he was "shocked" recently to be accosted in London by a prostitute. Said he, in view of his age and clerical garb: "I didn't approve of the girl's taste." Moral of his story: "Such a thing would never happen in the Soviet Union...
...this battle over principles, there has also been little discussion of what would happen to the school system if the Negro and white races were given similar schooling opportunities, and the Negro were to take advantage of them. Eli Ginzberg discusses this in his book, The Negro Potential: "If the education of southern negro males were brought up to the level of southern white males, the actual number of Negro high school graduates in the region would be tripled, from about 11,000 to about 32,000. It the education of northern Negroes were brought up to that of whites...
...question is, of course, what will happen when another Negro arrives at Tuscaloosa. The answer is dependent...
...methods should be used; these methods were simple-beat, beat, and again beat. Shortly after the doctors were arrested, we members of the Politburo received protocols with the doctors' confessions of guilt. After distributing the protocols, Stalin told us, 'You are blind like young kittens; what will happen without me? The country will perish because you do not know how to recognize enemies...
...inevitable clucks of disapproval from Mrs. Grundys all over the nation. In Parliament an outraged Laborite backbencher rose to demand assurances from the government that "breaches of the peace are treated by the police as breaches of the peace and not simply as acts of high spirits because they happen to occur among the rich and influential." The question, though it named no names, brought a prompt and unprecedented reply from Kensington Palace. The Duke of Kent, said a palace statement, was indeed at the parties referred to but was "in no way involved" in their fruitier moments...