Word: schoolless
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Every summer has its anthem, a beer-swilling, under-age-seducing, busted-for-drunk-driving tune sung by millions of schoolless American teens in their Camaros. One can trace the history of this country back through these songs: from "Sharp Dressed Man" to "Jump" to "Baba O'Reilly" to "Brown Sugar," all the way back to "Good Golly Miss Molly" and "Great Balls of Fire." Record companies have always identified hot weather with cool cash...
...Lisboa got himself elected in 1950, proved himself a warm friend of the thousands of school-age children in Rio who are deprived of an education by lack of buildings and teachers. He pushed through a bill authorizing the city administration to pay private-school board and tuition for schoolless children. When the bill passed, Lisboa himself bought a second private school, now collects $40,000 a month under the terms of his own bill. Running for re-election as speaker last March, he helped amass a majority among the 50 aldermen by inserting an item into the city budget...
...always pretended that he sought only an integration delay to let things quiet down, now told a Little Rock reporter: "I will never open the public schools as integrated institutions." It thus appeared that Little Rock's high-school students might as well settle down to a long schoolless winter. Number who have already applied for transfer to other cities...
| 1 |