Word: shutting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...admissions policy makers in northern colleges did not have enough problems, the shut-down of high schools in Charlottsville, Norfolk, and Little Rock has raised an issue in higher education circles which will not be easily solved. In brief, the policy makers must decide if they will continue to admit or reject applicants from these schools on their individual merits, or, in the interests of supporting the Supreme Court, reject them all on the grounds of inadequate preparation. Such rejection, it it felt, would underscore the need for reopening the schools and integrating them...
Stepping out of a Manhattan taxi, Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, president of the Methodist Church's Council of Bishops, slammed the door shut, unwarily slammed the edge of his overcoat with it. When the cab pulled away, Oxnam was felled, his head striking the curb. Momentarily knocked unconscious, the bishop was taken to the hospital with a fractured left arm and facial cuts...
...layoffs, about held its own with 1957 sales. The spots were more than offset. Atlanta registered sales 4% above 1957 (which merchants said was "incredible." because 1957 was 8% better than 1956). The biggest surprise of all was in New York. With the nine major newspapers shut down by a strike (see PRESS), department stores lost some mail- and phone-order business, and total sales were below anticipation, but they set new records. Said one top store executive: "It was wonderful...
...match, Crimson captain Joe Noble blanked R. Munson by a 5-0 count. Cornell roared right back in the 167 lb. class, as P.M. Oberlauer shut out the varsity's Peter Stanley...
...were herded into separate barracks, and 2) great unrest over wages and work, from peasants laboring sometimes from 19 to 20 hours a day. The Central Committee seemed surprised to learn that many local leaders were rude and dictatorial, and that they warned commune members to keep their mouths shut and "do what you are told...