Word: lower
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slaves of the lower Antilles once revolted against the overlords of that tribe. Bodies were mangled and terror reigned over the otherwise peaceful isles. But within a few weeks after the initial uprising a representative of the ignorant slaves (who by that time were armed and immensely powerful) pleaded with the young son of a defunct overlord that the slaves might return to their former bondage. The young boy who had been educated in England did not want the slaves back. The angry savages killed the lad on the spot and mangled his body...
...half a dozen states, a spate of bills have been introduced this year to initiate or expand taxpayer support for parochial schools. A proposed amendment to Wisconsin's constitution, permitting the use of public funds to transport private-school students, has cleared the legislature's lower house. In Minnesota, where Catholics have tried futilely for years to win passage of a bussing-aid bill, new Republican Governor Harold Le Vander, a Lutheran, announced that he might favor such a proposal; already under debate in the state legislature is a measure that would authorize aid to public schools offering...
...cannot demand and obtain instant scholarship; that objectivity and reflectiveness and depth of perception can only be had at the price of some loss in immediate relevance to the policy maker's current concerns; and that a good batting average for a successful scholar is probably a lot lower than it is for a major league ball-player...
...copy to the Boston papers without informing her, she lost all faith in local civil rights groups. She even refused to let the School Committee meet with any group wishing to discuss de facto segregation. Surprisingly this new hard line policy proved very popular with the voters, especially in lower middle class and working neighborhoods...
Instead the Institute should devote more time to lower-level officials, Hoffmann argues, because they are more at liberty to speak their mind...