Word: schoolroom
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Throughout the Bible Belt only a handful of pulpits ring with talk about the brotherhood of man-if brotherhood implies sitting together in a schoolroom. Pro-segregation sentiment is strongest in the areas where the rooted religion is Baptist and where the pentecostal sects flourish...
...young critic of royalty. Lord Altrincham, who "would have liked to have seen him enter a state-run primary school." But it was certainly more democratic than the old royal custom that prescribed for all heirs to the throne a private education under governess and tutors in the palace schoolroom...
...eyes lit up when they saw the bar. "Look at these low sinks!" exclaimed Balthazar Trumpi of Glarus, Switzerland. "This is perfect for the nursery. In the sinks the children can play at washing dishes, and join in the community activity." Soon the ballroom had been converted to a schoolroom, the basement bar into a workshop. Within the next week 62 more Brothers had arrived and settled into their new communal home...
...onto the red-carpeted platform of Helsinki Station. After an exchange of platitudes with Finnish Premier V. J. Sukselainen, resplendent in top hat and cutaway, the elder of the two visitors shouted out a greeting to a Finnish army honor guard. Like well-drilled children in an old-fashioned schoolroom, the soldiers chorused back: "Hyvaapaivaa, Herra Paaminesteri-Good day, Mr. Prime Minister." For the first time since their visit to Britain more than a year ago, Bulganin and Khrushchev had again taken their road show outside the Iron Curtain...
...Chief issues on the voters' minds last November, in order of importance, were 1) the international situation, 2) the high cost of living, 3) the schoolroom shortage and 4) a state right-to-work referendum. Only 2% said that the power issue mattered in the way they voted...