Word: spend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with a satisfactory plan to comply with the State Racial Imbalance Law. The School Committee's intransigence in racial matters has also delayed the building of a new English High School for over three years; the only available site has been in Roxbury. The Committee has yet to spend a cent of the $29 million bond issue, floated in 1963, for fear of disturbing the racial status...
...great many "dese, dem and dose" types. "Kids," he calls us. Well these "kids" are the happiest in the world. Don't doubt us for a minute. I live in Williamsburg, in an area called "greatly depressed." So my Brooklyn is labeled a rotten slum. I'll spend the rest of my life here-out of choice. Brooklyn is the best damn place in the world. Next time you guys knock Brooklyn, I'll come up there and make you eat your words...
...decline to become one of the most consistently over-applied Houses. The new-found popularity was more the result of a lot of little things than any one factor, but all added up to one conclusion. For some not quite definable reason, Lowell is an inordinately pleasant place to spend three years...
...Lion in Winter, by James Goldman, uncages a good roaring lion (Robert Preston) and a fearsomely impressive lioness (Rosemary Harris), but they spend the evening toying with a tiny blind mouse of a script...
...government, should provide more educational aid to more families, but the funds must go to the poorest students. The Ribicoff amendment was a piece of shotgun legislation, spraying aid indiscriminately without regard to need. The government should spend the $1 billion for education, but it should spend it more sensibly. The defeat of the Ribicoff amendment cannot be interpreted as denying the government's obligation to make the opportunity of college education available to all students...