Word: poorly
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Massive Resistance. In Virginia's constitutional referendum on Jan. 9, 1956, the amendment carried, 304,154 to 146,164, and the Gray Plan had outlived its usefulness. Poor Governor Stanley, who never quite seemed to get the word, hailed the vote as a "mandate" for the Gray Plan. But Harry Byrd interpreted it as a mandate for something much tougher. He promptly warned the legislature to go slow in enacting the Gray Plan's provisions. In February, Byrd laid down the law with an outright demand for "massive resistance" against any sort of integration. And in July, Byrd...
...land. Perfectly responsive to the opera's somber emotional inflections, her voice could sink effortlessly to a haunted, house-filling pianissimo or soar in gorgeously shifting gradations to cleave through the orchestra with ringing power. The least impressed person in the house was Singer Farrell herself. "The poor audience," she said after her grueling performance. "Medea just keeps on singing...
...test will be whether General Motors and Chrysler, which have presented a united front with Ford during bargaining, will also present a united front during a strike. Talk was that they might trim production, or shut down, in sympathy with Ford, undercut Reuther's whipsaw tactics. Following a poor year that saw G.M.'s Chevy alone outsell all Ford cars, Ford could not afford to stand idle while competitors were producing. But the U.A.W. could not long afford a joint showdown by the Big Three. The union might be faced with $12 million a week in benefits...
Some of the faux pas of which over-exuberant HSA directors were guilty included implied coercion of independent concessionaires, poor presentation of the organization's advantages, and even lowered profits as the price of membership. All this uproar came through misjudgment. Burke and the other directors believed that "our greatest problem would come from Harvard Square merchants, not from the students themselves...
Thousands of volumes have been written on the subject of language, but as Author Jacobs points out, they "often appear on poor paper with narrow margins, and, what is worse, in German." This book, fortunately, is wide margined, well written and in witty English...