Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sincere segregationist, Harry Byrd could also see the political hay to be made out of fighting for a lily-white Virginia. In that sense, the Gray Plan had a fatal flaw: in such liberal cities as Norfolk and Alexandria, local authorities might permit a few Negro children to sit in white classrooms...
...Angeles after a voyage from Hong Kong with his fourth wife, Chinese-American Kay Ling, 45, Musical Comedy Composer Rudolf (The Vagabond King) Friml, 73, sniffed: "We were in London last spring and attended My Fair Lady. I was nonplused. It was a terrible thing. I couldn't sit through it. I just walked...
Steve and his trio have played at the 47 Mt. Auburn St. coffee house since January, drawing good crowds with consistently fine music. The three year old group has a truly integral modern sound, sometimes complemented by six sit-ins; and whenever they begin playing exciting things happen--and keep on happening. With no injustice they are rated "the only professional group at Harvard--especially Steve...
...spinster, as the really grandes dames usually are. And she is known to sit quietly in a straightback mahogany chair--Colonial period-- in a drawing room of shadows, counting her memories on a rosary. She accepts visitors and offers them...
Changing Currents. With such a plurality, many a candidate would sit back on his fat margin, trusting to God, motherhood and still squabbling Republicans to keep him out of trouble. Brown knew better than anyone that post-primary factors would still be working in his favor, e.g., on the November ballot will be a proposition to take tax exemptions away from Roman Catholic and other privately endowed schools; with a huge Catholic vote expected against that proposition, Catholic Brown can only be a beneficiary...