Word: mum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...announced, one probationary teacher was dismissed, one regular resigned, and a third teacher retired. The next year, three teachers admitted they had been members of the party, ten resigned when called for questioning, and eight were dismissed for refusing to answer questions. This year, eight more insisted on keeping mum. Last week Superintendent Jansen suspended them...
...screams of children. I saw a bus stop, and three of us ran blindly up the road. We saw the boys. They were spread out from one side of the road to the other." "I picked up a boy," said one of his friends, and he cried: 'Oh, Mum! Oh, Mum!' I put him on the side and went to two others. I cradled them, but they died in my arms." Of 52 boys in the column, 17 had been killed; six died later; eight were seriously injured...
...final week, Durocher repeated persistently: "Don't interview me. I'm not doing a thing. It's my players who are doing the work. Talk with all of them; they're a great bunch. It's a privilege to manage them." While Durocher kept mum, the Giants won the first playoff game, lost the second, and trailed 4-2 in the ninth inning of the payoff game...
...begun to slip. Fourteen deputies last week signed a manifesto protesting the Premier's policies, deriding the fiasco of oil nationalization. Sayid Zia Eddin Tabatabai, onetime Premier and wily old politician, set up an opposition, revived his National Will Party. The Shah, who has been mum about his dislike of Mossadeq and his policies, last week made a public plea for national unity in which he said flatly that Iran was facing the worst crisis in her history...
Through it all. Interior Secretary Oscar Chapman stayed mum. Sniffing skulduggery, Louisiana's Democratic Congressman E. E. Willis fired off a letter to Chapman, sarcastically pointing out that homestead scrip was never intended to help start a farm "at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico." Willis demanded to know why Chapman, who usually acts on mineral lease applications in a matter of days, has let months pass without denying Cord's claims. By last week Chapman had still taken no action, but Interior officials said privately that Cord's claims will be tossed out. Another possible...