Word: school
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Other Cheek. In Tuscaloosa, Ala., J. R. Campbell was fined $100 after he paddled the school principal who paddled...
...Trade School. In Hartford, Conn., denying any attempt to escape, Convict Charles Glover explained that he had tied bedsheets together because he wanted to learn how to braid hair...
Except for its decisions on school desegregation, the U.S. Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren has come under no heavier fire than for its rulings in the prickly area of internal security. Time and again, in apparently sweeping opinions, the court threw its weight on the side of individuals involved in security cases-to the point where many a sober-minded observer feared that the public interest was being jeopardized. But last week, in a pair of 5-4 decisions, the Supreme Court gave clearer focus to two of the most controversial of its earlier security-case rulings, brought...
...lineman, is a chronic drunk, son of a sadist who beat him habitually throughout his childhood. Scarborough, an Air Force enlisted man, is an orphan whose mother was shot to death in a barroom brawl when he was seven and whose father committed suicide the same year. Stoutamire quit school after the eighth grade, has had a brush with juvenile authorities. Beagles is a high-school senior, the son of a truck driver and a waitress...
...outhouse, Novelist John Wain, 34, has been tarred by British critics with the feathers of the Angry Young Men. Novelist Wain rejects the label-and with good reason. With this novel about marital infidelity as practiced by England's rootless middle class, he identifies himself with a school that looks back not in anger but in languor...