Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Anemic Case. From then on the controversy swirled off into a storm of legal maneuvers, press conferences and telegrams (the National Guardsmen got so bored doing nothing that they finally turned to threatening Northern newsmen with arrest for "inciting to violence," i.e., reporting the story). Orval Faubus fired off a wild-eyed message to the President of the U.S.: he thought his telephone lines were being tapped: he was sure that Federal authorities were plotting to arrest him; the situation in Little Rock "grows more explosive by the hour." To ward off all invaders, Orval Faubus de ployed his militia...
...Russians' jet-fueled ploy had some propaganda value, calling attention to the fact that they are ahead in the passenger-jet field. One side effect: the British, apparently suffering from wounded pride, hurriedly announced that they will fly a revamped Comet II this week from Northern Ireland to Orlando...
...went into the pits at 14, Frank Cousins switched to truck driving when depression made mine jobs scarce. Humping meat and machinery long distances at low pay, he caught the eye of Ernie Bevin just before World War II, and became a T.W.U. organizer along the northern roads. Brought to London in 1944, he scorned the desk, never lost a chance to get out among the men, in truckers' cafes and pubs, on docks and in warehouses...
...would be hard to find anywhere in the world a more hard-working and dutiful group of students than those at the Salahiah Girls Institute in northern Malaya. All day for six days a week, the girls, aged twelve to 20, drill in Arabic, study the Moslem faith, recite from the Koran. Beyond the high wall that surrounds the school are lush green fields, but the girls never play on them, for recreation has no place in the ascetic life of the religious institute. In this austere atmosphere, one day last month, a terrifying thing happened. "Who knows what...
...souped-up, specially streamlined MG that curved around his short frame like a futuristic coffin, Britain's Stirling Moss whipped over the rain-dampened Bonneville Salt Flats in northern Utah to set a new record for class F (up to 1,500 cc.) cars in the flying mile: 245.11 m.p.h...