Word: passing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...helplessly. "Kennedy is a friend," he said, "and so far as I know, I'm not being used as a guinea pig by anybody." As for the schools, he returned to his old, pre-gubernatorial stumping grounds. Said he: "No Alabama school will be integrated unless they pass over my body...
...illegal veneer of "integration" (TIME, Aug. 10). And the board was painfully mindful that last summer Faubus called a sudden session of the state legislature that stopped high schools from opening all year. Though the laws that turned this trick have since been declared unconstitutional, another special session might pass new ones...
What else would Orval Faubus do? Few knew the answer. He might well get the legislature (reportedly, to meet this weekend) to pass a sheaf of school-closing acts, simply sign a new one as soon as the old one was thrown out of court. And his backwoods segregationist supporters might yet descend on the city in force when the integrated schools open this week. Said Little Rock's able Police Chief Eugene Smith, canceling all leaves: "We don't know what to expect. But we're going to be ready...
Grace Marks. With no opportunity to get a rounded education, with no academic atmosphere around him, and with his whole future hanging on the results of periodical tests, the average student works only to pass his exams. To supplement their incomes, badly trained professors assist crammers by writing and selling notebooks and "Made Easies." At that, so many students fail exams-partly because they arrive ill-prepared in the English that remains the medium of instruction-that colleges sometimes add a "grace mark" to the exam results to raise the percentage of passed candidates...
...fire still burned. The fumes got so bad that mine officials kept watch round the clock to waken residents in case of a sudden increase of escaping gas. They knew that the Lackawanna River, toward which the fire was eating its way, would be no barrier. The fire could pass under its bed, and eat its way under the city's business section on the far side...