Word: quos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alabama law sets up 17 separate standards for assigning pupils to public schools. Nowhere is the question of race or color mentioned, but school boards obviously had a wide-open chance to preserve the segregation status quo in several placement qualifications, including: 1) "the psychological qualification of the pupil for the type of teaching and associates involved," 2) "the possibility of threat of friction or disorder," 3) "the possibility of breaches of the peace or ill will or economic retaliation within the community," and 4) "the maintenance or severance of established social and psychological relationships with other pupils and with...
...varsity, however, will have a definite struggle even to retain its share in last years' three way tie for second place with Army and Dartmouth. Though the varsity keeps its status quo, and most likely is a better team than last year, the rest of the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming league (the eight Ivy schools plus Army and Navy) has improved more than the Crimson...
Communists, and even odder that the West should insist on the Russian right to stay in Berlin. But in pressing for the kind of recognition-whether de facto or formal-that would only cement the division of Germany, the Russians are obviously seeking the status quo that Khrushchev told Walter Lippmann is the goal of Soviet diplomacy...
...Reflecting afterwards on his recent interview, Lippmann concluded that Khrushchev had a newfangled definition of the status quo: the West should recognize all that Russia now has, plus all that it intends to get, in Asia and Africa, by what it considers the inexorable march of events...
Although the present situation is far from relaxing, it is not intolerable. The territorial status quo has been preserved for a decade, and meanwhile an apparently healthy integration of the German Federal Republic into Western Europe is now taking place. This may prove to be one of the most significant transitions of the era. Any Central European bloc would interrupt this integration. The Common Market, the Euratom plan and any further developments would be curtailed. The unification of Germany ought not to tear away the Federal Republic formally from the West until the cultural and economic ties have thoroughly permeated...