Word: saws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Little Clinton, Tenn. (pop. 4,259), the 1956 scene of some of the worst violence in the whole desegration struggle, had begun its 1958 school year quietly-too quietly for someone who saw that nine Negro children were peaceably attending classes with whites. This week, at three-minute intervals in the foggy early morning, three dynamite explosions gutted Clinton High School. Rather than have school for all, some wanton destroyer preferred school for none...
...gratification is not love, the golden pair find after 146 pages of satisfying themselves. "It was as though, for the first time, we saw what we were doing. It seemed that we were not merely lying locked in that hard merciless embrace of pain and love. But we were also standing above somewhere, watching. We knew what we would do; we did it; we looked back upon it. We had never had to love with perspective before. It spoiled...
...zanne in Red, and Picasso's blue-period Mademoiselle B. (Suzanne Bloch) arrived in the nearby port of Santos, Chatô threw a shipboard champagne party to welcome them. In 1952, when Van Gogh's Schoolboy arrived in the capital city of Bahia, Chatô saw to it that school was let out and the new acquisition greeted by thousands of cheering students. Recently Brazil's President Juscelino Kubitschek turned over the presidential palace to greet another shipment of art, and Brazil's Foreign Minister staged a reception at Itamarati Palace to welcome a load...
...Louis' coed Washington University, Fannie did not participate in "the 'spooning' that I had reason to suspect went on between students." Instead she wrote blank verse. Visiting Manhattan with her father, Fannie looked down from a hotel window and saw her future. People, she remembers, were "flowing like slow molasses, yet full of heartbeat and fear and hope and power and-infinity. Those people down there were composed of persons." She would have to live in New York, find the persons among the people, glaze them with her words...
...night in the south end of the basement of the Varsity Club. A Harvard policeman turned in the alarm, which brought three engine companies and a total of ten pieces of fire equipment. The policeman said he was checking the doors of the building when he "smelled smoke and saw a little flame...