Word: rocked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Union with Greece). Outside, they were met by black-helmeted security police. Recruited from the Turkish Cypriot community by the British, the "Black Turks" are hated by the Greek Cypriots. Truncheons came, down on the backs of screaming boys and girls. Tear-gas shells were lobbed into crowds of rock-hurling youngsters...
...depends upon two questionable assumptions. First, it assumes that the Harvard degree produces the additional income of the Harvard alumnus. According to this theory, Karim Aga Khan makes 1,000,000 times as much as his stable boy because he went to Harvard, and the young genius from Slippery Rock gets richer than the idiot down the block because of the benign influence of the Harvard faculty...
...about Dick Russell," said Ike to an aide. "I thought he was a friend of mine. What's the matter with him? Why is he sore at us?" Answered the astonished aide: "Why, Mr. President, you can't expect him to be very happy over the Little Rock situation and use of Federal troops." "Golly," said Ike of the man who last summer directed the Southern attack on civil rights legislation, "I didn't think he'd take that personally...
...netted a profit on its $42 million Chicago commuter facilities only twice since 1947. The I.C. says it needs a 55% fare boost just to get a 2.1% return. Its estimated $955,000 loss on the service this year will still be the lowest of any Chicago commuter line; Rock Island alone will drop $1,500,000. In Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania rings up a yearly $4,000,000 commuter deficit, which a requested 15% fare boost would slash by only...
Commenting on the future of the Central High School controversy, he said, "There is no sign of organization within Little Rock to take local initiative for integration when the troops leave...