Word: question
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...school board present its case to the Supreme Court. Technically, before the Supreme Court last week was an N.A.A.C.P. motion to vacate the 30-day stay. But the U.S., represented by its Solicitor General, had suggested what the N.A.A.C.P. had not: that the Supreme Court go beyond the question of the 30-day stay, rule on Judge Lemley's June decision, and thereby go straight to the heart of the nation's most weighty domestic problem...
...seems to me," said Rankin, "that we are now at the crossroads in this important question. The people of the country are entitled to a definitive statement from the court as to whether force and violence will prevail ... In some places school integration will take time, longer time than in others . . . But you must have a start." Throughout, the chamber sat quiet, the justices immobile, Thurgood Marshall with a slight scowl. Little Rock's Superintendent Virgil Blossom and Arkansas' Democratic Senator William Fulbright (on hand as a friend of the court to ask for more time in Little...
...Unlikely Event . . ." For the U.S. builders of the submarines, not the question, but the sudden public interest in it, was new. Should a submarine be hit at top speed by another ship, the result might indeed be disaster. But in port, the experts argued, no ship would be traveling fast enough to penetrate the heavy shielding built around the reactor. "However," said Admiral Rickover, "in the unlikely event that a collision would be so severe and so precisely located as to penetrate the submarine's hull and its reactor system, the reactor is so located in the ship that...
Because only about half of Columbia is numbed by the drumming, a furious row commences. The city's ladies fume about Miss Mizzou's putative lack of underclothes, while the C. of C. retorts that nothing has ever been proved in that respect. To critics who question the whole project, the C. of C. men reply that it has great publicity value but give no clear notion of what the publicity is for or what they are selling. The city council hears more arguments, schedules a final meeting for next week to decide whether Missouri's teams...
...Supreme Court Justice Shneor Cheshin read each question, Amos Hacham would painfully draw himself up, holding his breath, his body rigid. Then the answer would come suddenly, in a harsh, monotonous cry. He missed scarcely a question. When it was over, Amos was hands-down winner of the first prize - a grey-green, 2,000-year-old glass vase from a tomb at Beth Shearim. Runner-up was France's Simone Dumont, Baptist teacher and a publisher of children's books, who won an ancient silver shekel. Third prize, a gold coin commemorating the tenth anniversary of Israel...