Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Aboard were 24 Negroes, seated from the rear toward the front, and twelve whites, seated from front to back. At the Empire Theater stop, six whites boarded the bus. The driver, as usual, walked back and asked the foremost Negroes to get up and stand so the whites could sit. Three Negroes obeyed-but Mrs. Rosa Parks, a seamstress who had once been a local secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, did the unexpected. She refused...
...Ivory Coast chieftain who was once ready to fight for independence, but now calls for "self-government within the French Union." A year ago, when Socialist Guy Mollet was named Premier of France, 51-year-old Félix Houphouet-Boigny became the first West African ever to sit in a French Cabinet. Ever since, Houphouet-Boigny and Mollet's Minister of France Overseas, 46-year-old Gaston Defferre, have been working for more autonomy...
...Vice President in Charge of Brainstorming, whose major function is to hold about three brainstorm sessions a week, see to it that his charges sound off loud and clear. The panel of thinkers is made up of admen and (at nonconfidential sessions) outside guests and friends (including housewives). They sit around in a comfortable, yellow-painted (yellow is considered conducive to thought) brainstorm room furnished in homey knotty pine, have plenty of pads, pencils and cigarettes. Lunch is served, then the session begins. A central problem (how to cut down absenteeism, how to improve highway signs) is presented, and everyone...
...first job in counselling is to sit back and let the student talk," Crooks said. "We aren't psychiatrists; what we want to do is to reduce areas of ignorance, both in the student's minds and in our own." He cited three main problems in the minds of those who want counselling: military service, graduate school, and a career. Concerning the first problem, Student Placement feels that it has the best collection of information about the armed services and the draft in the college. "People are just delaying their ideas about the military," Crooks said, "and we feel...
...state; religious instruction was readily available again for any who wanted it, and Catholic parents rushed to register their children in such numbers that Communists began to talk about a "holy war." The Warsaw newspaper Trybuna Ludu reported that in a school near Lublin "no child wants to sit beside the daughter of the secretary of the district Party Committee. The children say that they are afraid to sit with a girl who is in alliance with . . . the Devil . . . More and more children who do not attend religious classes are discriminated against and often beaten up . . .In some schools even...