Word: sore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Delivered in the mail at the district clerk's office in Little Rock, Ark, one day last week was a 35-page legal ruling that reopened the running sore of the Little Rock desegregation crisis. U.S. District Judge Harry J. Lemley, sitting temporarily in Arkansas' Eastern District, granted a petition by the Little Rock school board to suspend racial integration at Central High School until January, 1961. Reason: while the Negro students "in the Little Rock district have a constitutional right not to be excluded from any of the public schools on account of race," desegregation has simply...
...Washington the Justice Department waited watchfully, hopeful that the reopened sore could be healed again by legal means. Preparing for the next move, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People filed an appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in St. Louis. Meanwhile, the N.A.A.C.P. asked Judge Lemley for a stay of execution to allow the remaining seven of the original nine Negro students at Central High (one girl was expelled last February, studied in New York City; one boy graduated last fortnight, is entering Michigan State University) to stay on at Central High...
...hungry and sore-footed there are restaurants, a milk bar and an outdoor tea garden. There is a penny arcade with a rock-'n'-roll-playing jukebox for the Teddy Boy set, a maze, a miniature train and pony rides for the children. While the ladies can load up at the souvenir shop on bric-a-brac bearing the ducal coat of arms, the men can attend a peepshow called "Ten Beautiful Models in Color and 3-D." Finally, for the benefit of all, there is the duke himself, always around to greet his "guests," to pose...
...lineup, young (21) William Stanley Mazeroski is Pittsburgh's second baseman; in action, he seems determined to prove himself a one-man ball club. He ranges after flies as widely as any outfielder, charges bunts with such breakneck energy that sore-backed First-Baseman Ted Kluszewski is left lumbering in his wake. He handles the double-play with the swift hands of a professional pickpocket. "He doesn't catch that ball," says one of his fans. "He just guides it toward first base...
...eighth man ever to make 3.000 big-league hits (TIME, May 12), Dickie Kerr and his wife heard the news in their new Houston home, a neat white frame bungalow that had just been bought for them, out of gratitude and a sense of everlasting obligation, by a sore-armed Class D pitcher named Stanley Frank Musial...