Word: pupil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reveal no bitterness when questioned by newsmen.) During the noon hour a white boy and girl, both school leaders, saw a Negro boy eating alone. They asked: "Would you like to come over to our table?" The boy smiled gratefully: "Gosh, I'd love to." And another Negro pupil recalled: "The white kids broke the ice. They talked to us." Clearly, many of the white children of Central High School were proving themselves better citizens than their elders...
...folk singers, would come from, he said, "from the teenagers, the ones who fall in love with the songs. There are a lot of them. Josh Jr.--he's 16--and some I'm training, and Stan Wilson, and Dean Gitter will be good some day, and a pupil of Lead Belly's--I can't think of his name--on the twelve string guitar, who's damn near as good." He brought himself up short and stretched his hands wide apart. "By damn near as good, I mean that's a lot of difference...
Getchell has been given good material, and the ability to whip a team into shape. He wants one more gift: 'morale" for his team. A booster bursting with high spirits is always a receptive pupil, and provides "fertile ground for teaching," as the soccer coach puts...
North Carolina. In a token appeasement of the Federal Courts, Charlotte, Greensboro and Winston-Salem this semester admitted a total of 13 carefully screened Negroes to white schools. The lone Negro pupil at Charlotte's Harding High School withdrew last week in the face of continuing harassment. The Greensboro and Winston-Salem pioneers were still holding...
...eventually clamped down on the Kram brothers (the Post Office persuaded Benjamin and Henry-Max had quit the firm-to sign an affidavit promising to go out of business). Meanwhile, back in Pittsburgh, young Murray Kram, Max's son and Uncle Ben's assiduous pupil, was keeping the family's tin-plated platinum cup clanking. A bat-eared young man with the mournful features of a card player who has aces wired, Murray could not ask alms as a disabled vet, since he had not been in service. Instead, with the customary request for $1, he made...