Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stung to attention by national publicity, the Atlanta Journal sent Reporter Margaret Shannon to Lakeland, printed her indignant articles flogging school Officials. With the state hearing coming up at the end of the month, local schoolmen, unwilling to face a second reproof from the press, met hurriedly with two state officials, said that Teacher Baskin could return to work with full back pay, no loss of benefits. Back in a fourth grade classroom last week, the 65-year-old teacher, who will retire with a pension in June, said: "It has been most trying for me. I'm glad...
...choosy New York Drama Critics Circle, which has been known to hold on to its annual awards when no recipient was considered deserving, met last week to name the season's best productions. The vote...
...decent prices and under non-clip conditions, too-Hamburg wins the diamond-studded G-string by 6 bumps and 24 grinds." It is not raw flesh but raw deals that make Fielding's blood boil: "Of all the groups of surly, devious, tip-hungry ruffians we've met in our travels, the Venetian gondoliers take our personal booby prize." Fielding's Guide is fun because he writes a kind of frivolous morality play, pitting good hotels and restaurants against bad, good tourist buys against outrageous swindles, nice national characteristics against naughty ones...
...Amherst, the second Crimson squad met the Amherst varsity fifteen to help fill a hole in the Lord Jeff schedule. Paying the price of their generosity, the Crimson ruggers were downed...
...Schubert posed enormous technical difficulties which the musicians met heroically. The opening horn call was given without a flaw, and the entire performance showed the results of meticulous practice and rehearsing. The opening of the finale, in particular, gave promise of brilliance and exuberance...