Word: rocked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outside the secluded stone house near Washington's Rock Creek Park, two "For Sale" signs were spiked forlornly in the lawn. Inside, curious house seekers noted the scarred plaster, peeling paint, grotesquely overstuffed furniture, shabby, faded Oriental rug that had been replaced by a shiny new one during much of the stay of the previous tenant, former Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams...
Last week, the former president spoke with warmth of "two convictions which never failed me-that the foundation principle on which Radcliffe was built was solid as rock, and that no college could be happier in those who served and supported and believed in her." Few would deny that chief among those who served is Ada Comstock Notestein...
After three worsening years of acrimony and litigation, the five moderate members of the Little Rock school board-segregationists who believe in complying with Federal law-last week resigned in a mood of "utter hopelessness, helplessness and frustration." Left as the board's sole remaining member: Supreme Court-flouting Segregationist Dr. Dale Alford, who won a larger triumph a fortnight ago, when he captured the House of Representatives' seat of Moderate Congressman Brooks Hays on a write-in vote...
...Little Rock will choose a new school board Dec. 6. Wrote the resigning members pointedly: "This election will give the voters . . . their first opportunity to express a clear-cut choice as to whether we have public schools in Little Rock or not . . . We deplore the interruption or termination of the education of so many of Little Rock's children .. . Somewhere in their consideration of the matters involved, all citizens of this community must remember that this responsibility begins with them...
...while it seemed that there might be no new board; but before the deadline, 15 citizens, most of them known segregationists, filed for the six posts. Facing the new board after its election: a ruling last week by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ordering continued desegregation of Little Rock schools...