Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Court's interpretation of the Constitution can be made good in Little Rock, then it can be made good in Arkansas. If it can be made good in Arkansas, then eventually it can be made good throughout the South." The words ''turning point" gave Baker an idea: why not establish a Little Rock scholarship fund for the nine colored children of Central High School-and for the white children who befriended them in the face of mob violence? Baker went before his congregation, dug into his modest Minister's Fund, came up with...
...There are forces in the world," said Communism's Nikita Khrushchev in his proud capital last week, "that have not given up the idea of war in the Middle East. But Turkey and the U.S. should reflect that war, once started, can spread, and once guns begin to boom and rockets begin to fly then it will be too late...
What brought on this surge of morbidity? Actually, the idea is old, the form merely revised. A generation ago people laughed at "Little Willie" verses...
...both Elizabeth and Philip. Victoria, eager for the whole world to adore her husband as she did, was all for having the people crown Albert King right at the start. "For God's sake, Ma'am," her avuncular Prime Minister Lord Melbourne cried out at the idea, "if you get the English people into the way of making Kings, you will get them into the way of unmaking them...
Geometry They Don't Dig. A onetime premedical student at Michigan State University. Waldron found himself confronted by every kind of question, from "What is an idea?" to "What are the three body types?" He had to conjugate Latin verbs, locate the source of the Mississippi, identify the President of the U.N. General Assembly, solve all sorts of math problems for troubled bobby-soxers. "Geometry," he found, "they just don't dig." So many questions poured in that Waldron soon realized the station's "reference library-a 1943 Who's Who, a 1950 Information Please Almanac...