Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dean urged putting more pressure on the secondary schools by demanding more polished students and fewer "diamonds in the rough." He advocated the selection of the better trained student, when other qualifications are equal...
...changes continued. At last Benoit and Leroy decided that they had new-style ducks that do not resemble their Pekin parents or the Khaki-Campbells from whose genitals their DNA had been taken-or even a hybrid between the two. Their feathers are soft and pure white instead of rough and creamy white, as in Pekin ducks. Their necks are set at a different angle, and their temperaments are placid instead of scrappy. Jesuit Leroy reports: "I didn't sleep for nights after we discovered the changes. It is wonderful to be close to the workings of creation...
...finds the rough-and-tumble of politics a noisy bore. Once, during a particularly tedious Cabinet session, he murmured something about having to leave "for urgent reasons," went to a side door of the Casa Rosada and hailed a taxi. He rode to a teashop, had a leisurely dish of ice cream, taxied back to the office, gravely rejoined the session. Junta meetings seem more natural to him. Aramburu greets his high military counselors casually: "Hello, Rojas. Afternoon, Admiral. General, how are you?" To them he remains "Senor Presidente." There is always some banter and small talk before the junta...
...public schools, Bobby Lynn Cain, 17. marched into the gymnasium of the Clinton (Tenn.) High School to become the first Negro ever to graduate from an integrated school in the state. How did he feel about the months of violence behind him? Said Bobby: "It's been a rough year, and I wouldn't want to go through it again. But there's got to be a breakup in the old traditions of segregation, but you can't get to them overnight. I don't just want to go to school. I want equality...
Novel System. Free to play his own game, Hoak has shown the rough aggressiveness that the beanballing pitchers sensed beneath his solid (6 ft., 182 Ib.) frame. His novel system for breaking up a double play (TIME, May 6) has forced a change in the rulebook.* Last week his timely hitting helped his team take two out of three games from the Giants; his smooth work at third left Shortstop Roy McMillan free to team up with Second Baseman Johnny Temple in one of the best double-play combinations in baseball. The Redlegs, who started the season slowly...