Word: rocked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...EDGAR E. MARTIN Jacksonville Sir: Will the TV lessons in Little Rock be tele cast in color or black and white? WILLIAM E. GILLIS Plymouth, Mass...
...Idealism," sighed one delegate as the conference broke up, "has been wrecked on the rock of reality." Last man to learn of the wreckage was Organizer La Pira himself. At the very first session, he collapsed from overwork, for two days lay exhausted and comatose, while his delegates talked on but found no peace...
...Bonanza and El Dorado days, missing no nugget of color and adventure. A squaw man named George Washington ("Siwash George") Carmack staked the first big claim on Aug. 17, 1896, a day still celebrated in Yukon territory. There it was, "lying thick between the flaky slabs of rock like cheese in a sandwich." Charley Anderson bought a claim when drunk for $800, tried to get his money back when sober and could not. Out of it came $1,000,000 and his lifelong nickname, the Lucky Swede. Soon the world outside could talk or dream of little except the Klondike...
Three men will appear in court today and plan to plead guilty to a charge of hurling a rock into a window of the Cafe Mozart at 12:30 a.m. yesterday morning...
...second group of questions dealt with racial discrimination in the U. S., the one feature of life here which came in for continual criticism. "We have heard about this Little Rock city; could you please tell us why the Negroes are being treated badly...