Word: resorters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...amendment would permit the legislature to 1) abolish all public schools "as a last resort" by two-thirds vote; 2) allow individual localities to abolish public schools as they choose; 3) sell, lease or rent school property to private individuals, then pay each "educable" child's tuition to what would then be private, segregated schools...
...administer sedatives ... except as a last resort . . . The psychological casualty does not think clearly, [and sedatives] will . . . add to his confusion...
...threaded his way with quick gait through the grey stone château resort high in the pines of the Black Forest, past his fellow guests and their nurses. On vacation, he looked as chipper as ever, walking in the morning amid the trees, kneeling for as long as an hour in the chapel, while Paul, his son, said Mass. He joshed the hotel servants; when a waiter with a Rhineland accent brought the corkscrew to open some 40-year-old brandy, he insisted that the man drink with...
This week, after a brief vacation at a La Jolla, Calif, resort (where his visit coincided, as it did last year, with that of J. Edgar Hoover), Joe McCarthy returned to Washington to face the Watkins investigation of his past deeds, and to hear the Mundt committee's verdict on his scrap with the Army. The verdict was not clear...
Though he had just acknowledged crimes punishable by death, Taruc appeared unworried as he read a 20-minute statement: "I represent the feelings and sentiments of thousands of militant peasants compelled to take up arms since 1946 as a last resort to defend ourselves [against] calculated persecutions." Then he went on to attack his own Communist leadership, in Communist lingo, for having followed "a criminal adventurist policy of armed seizure of power through national uprising." He even praised the "U.S. Government and farsighted Filipino leaders [who] boldly decided to seize the initiative by compelling reform," and saluted President Ramon Magsaysay...