Word: school
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Proposed for a $20,000-a-year job as a director of the Tennessee Valley Authority by President Eisenhower: Arkansas' former Democratic Congressman Brooks Hays, 60, defeated last November in his bid for re-election by an eleventh-hour write-in vote of Little Rock school segregationists, hastily mobilized to squelch Moderate Hays and his gradualism...
After graduation from Kilgore High School (where he was a star quarterback), Clements went to Spain to study under Tutor Franklin, trained for more than two years on a rigorous daily schedule that began at 5 a.m. with a three-hour session at a slaughterhouse, where he practiced killing bulls. In Spain he acquired a matador's long sideburns and a sense of tragic ritual that contrasts oddly with his Texas drawl and quick grin. His father, a welding-company owner, backed him all the way, spent $25,000 on his training. "I told that knucklehead...
Father Alfred did not believe in play or leisure. He thought that everyone should be doing something useful every waking hour. Jim was sent to school when he was four years old. When not at school, he and his three brothers were set to chopping wood and household chores...
Mealtime conversation was expected to be serious. On winter evenings, Father often read to the family from The Book of Knowledge. The boys were sometimes allowed to play baseball or football in their own yard, but their father banned their participation in school athletics-"Circus games," snorted Father. After the boys suffered a long series of illnesses, Father took steps. Winter or summer, the windows of the family car were always kept shut to exclude drafts...
...smaller than most boys of his age, and his early sicknesses made him weak and shy. Unable to compete in any physical way, he threw himself into school-work with burning enthusiasm, getting top marks in all his subjects. Not eager to let him get too far away, his parents sent him to Iowa Wesleyan, a small college right in Mount Pleasant. There he quickly attracted the attention of Professor Thomas Poulter, a first-class physicist...