Word: musts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time for the President to perceive that law enforcement must be accompanied by active effort in behalf of the principle behind the law. It was likewise time for sober Southerners to realize the enormity of the school-closing acts...
...should be affirmed . . . that Article VI of the Constitution means what it says." Echoing Marshall's plea, U.S. Solicitor General J. Lee Rankin rose to remind the court of the obligations of school boards and state authorities to uphold the Constitution. "The court," said he, "must say throughout the length and breadth of this land: There can be no equality of justice for our people if the law steps aside even for a moment...
...District school boards must refer all Negro applications for white schools to a three-man state pupil-placement board, which can reject them on any basis except color. ("We had to figure out a defense that was based on anything but race," Lindsay Almond once explained. "You see, that would be going against the Supreme Court decision.") The pupil-placement law has already been swept aside in some federal court districts...
...When the school is closed, Lindsay Almond must enter into a farcical attempt to reopen it on a "resegregated" basis. In practice, this means that he must try to persuade the Negroes to withdraw voluntarily...
...there must be sober realization by the American people that our legitimate purposes are again being tested by those who threaten peace and freedom everywhere...