Word: junior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rugged forward, Downs tallied on driving lay-ups and converted 12 of 13 free throws, many of them at crucial moments. Junior Dan McFadden added 20 points and 6 ft., 10 in. Gerry Glynn, despite an awkward and generally unimpressive showing...
Stratford Junior High in Arlington will open its doors at 8:45 a.m. to four Negro pupils along with 1,076 white youngsters. At 9 a.m. six secondary schools in Norfolk, closed by state order since last September, will reopen and enroll 17 Negroes and nearly 10,000 white students...
...armed forces keep him in power, and the troops are not entirely happy. Younger officers are disgruntled because their careers are slowed by the superabundance of brass at the top; e.g., Paraguay's two-gunboat navy has seven admirals. Early this month Stroessner arrested several junior army officers and transferred others to a searing Chaco outpost. It may be lonely to be South America's last dictator, but Stroessner does not intend to be blown over by breezes from a distant Caribbean island...
...school is a waste of time-and public money. More often than not they drop out before graduation to take dead-end jobs, in a few years send to school another generation of hopeless pupils. But to some 450 youngsters at Manhattan's George Washington High School and Junior High School 43, an experimental teaching and guidance program offers a fair chance to complete high school, and for the brightest, a hope of going on to college. This week, after more than two years' trial, the New York City board of education pronounced the experiment a success, planned...
...determined to win a place on the planets for his company. A tireless worker (eleven hours a day, six days a week) and an omnivorous reader, he devours everything on space he can find, scans every proposal in such microscopic detail that section chiefs must bring along their junior engineers to answer his pinpoint questions...