Word: junior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Board of Education estimates that there are about 9500 "hard-core delinquents" in the elementary and secondary schools. This is only one per cent of the student population, but determined junior toughs can make life miserable for teachers and earnest students, besides attracting immature admirers...
...senate's attempt to nail Governor Griffin, who once ruled both houses of the legislature with little trouble, signaled that Griffin has run head on into Georgia Kingmaker Herman Talmadge, his predecessor as governor and now Georgia's junior U.S. Senator. Under Georgia law, Griffin may not run again at term's end. Talmadge and his U.S. Senate colleague, Richard Russell, want Lieut. Governor Ernest Vandiver for Georgia's next governor. Griffin is backing former State Highway Board Chairman Roger H. Lawson, presumably because Lawson would turn the governor's chair back to Griffin...
...wake of a fresh wave of teenage violence, culminating in the suicide of a distraught Brooklyn junior high school principal (TIME, Feb. 10), the New York City Board of Education at last decided to crack down on the hoods in its classrooms. "To protect the innocent," it ruled last week, any pupil "charged with a violation of law involving violence or insubordination" would be suspended. The very next day the city's elementary, junior highs and vocational high schools suspended 544 troublemakers, and the academic high schools about 100 more...
When Senior died, Junior stepped naturally into his shoes as Grand Old Man of Paris. Yet he continued as "the sworn foe of adultery" with increasing success until his late 60s, when he fell in love with Henriette Escalier, a married woman young enough to be his granddaughter. She became his mistress; after she managed to divorce her husband and Dumas' wife died, they were married, five months before Dumas' death (1895). "I have sometimes seriously thought of entering a monastery," he groaned sometime before his last marriage...
Though the 1,214 students of Brooklyn's John Marshall Junior High School are a melting-pot group (45% are Negro, 10% Puerto Rican), the school until last December seemed an orderly place in a comparatively orderly neighborhood. Then suddenly things began to go wrong for John Marshall...