Word: out-of-town
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...piled into cars and started a protest parade, dispersed when a policeman called a halt because they had no permit. The citizens' committee stormed before the school board. At the first meeting the board would let in only two of the protesters at a time. Then, as out-of-town newspapers began to play up the controversy, the officials began to backtrack. School Superintendent Harry Edwards said that the six expelled pupils could come back...
...order to meet this situation the Cambridge City Council passed an ordinance two years ago which states that if out-of-town violators did not answer to their tickets they would have their cars towed away...
...Out-of-town reporters wrote that perhaps the Levisons were being persecuted because of their religion. At that point Greenfielders lost patience. They objected to the slur on their town, resented the trouble the Levisons were causing. Customers stopped going to Levison's sawmill; stores stopped extending him credit. Finally the Levisons moved out of town. But they were not giving up their fight...
...aureate Lee the most fabulous comic creation of this dreary period in history." "Carol Channing," trilled the Herald Tribune's often harsh-voiced Howard Barnes, "serves notice that she has few peers among musical-comedy actresses." Even before these rhadamanthine judgments were pronounced, Carol's out-of-town notices had set the box office of Manhattan's Ziegfeld Theater humming with the biggest advance seat sale in theatrical history-a whacking $600,000 worth...
...deadly attempt against the Reuthers stemmed from their successful anti-Communist crusade within the U.A.W. Another theory was that it resulted from their attempts to stamp out the numbers racket that once flourished in the Ford River Rouge plant. Walter Reuther, who had gone straight home from an out-of-town business trip instead of turning up at headquarters that night as expected, refused even to guess what was behind the plot...