Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ordinary housefly is giving a lot of trouble. In most places, said Entomologist Ralph B. March, "wild housefly" populations have built up such an immunity that most are not harmed by DDT and other standard insecticides...
...Board of Education approved a Gideons offer to give copies of the New Testament, bound with the Old Testament Books of Psalms and Proverbs, to public-school children whose parents made written requests. But a Jewish father, Bernard Tudor, backed by the American Jewish Congress, and a Catholic parent, Ralph Le Coque (who later withdrew from the case), contested the plan in court and obtained a temporary injunction. This week the New Jersey supreme court unanimously made it permanent...
...question of segregation in Southern public schools, Editor Ralph McGill of the influential Atlanta Constitution (circ. 173,591) has long steered an enlightened but discreet course. But last week, in his daily column, McGill spoke bluntly. "What the various Southern state legislatures are doing," said he, "as they busy themselves with plans to carry on school segregation without legal compulsion, is admitting [that] segregation by law is finished ... It, therefore, seems important that we discuss the problem as rationally as possible...
...addition, Mulvey, Ralph Zani, and Bill Travis opened the meet for the varsity by combining to take the 300-yard medley relay in 3:01.4. Then, for the last number on the program, Alan Rapperport, John Mallard, Marv Sandler, and Jorgenson teamed in the 400-yard free style relay for a time of 3:37.1 and a Crimson...
Purgatory is a dialogue between an illegitimate son and his insane father who finally kills the boy to keep him from reliving his own life of lust and murder. In portraying the "fat, greasy life." of which Yeats wrote, Michael Laurence and Ralph Russell act with unvarying intensity, robbing the short play of much of its potential impact. Every line is grossly shouted; there is no shading. As the father, Laurence is too noble--Yeats was not trying to write a tragedy of a noble man fallen, but a picture of a man groveling and depraved, even during his brief...