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Word: stops (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what amounted to a new pattern of limited or token integration, which had already been pioneered in North Carolina. Desperately, the Virginia General Assembly's extremists, led by Senator Harry Byrd's mouthpiece, House Speaker E. Blackburn Moore fought for more time by putting up last-minute stop-integration dodges. Example: because of the Chicago school fire, the state should be empowered to close schools until certified safe by a state fire marshal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Virginia Gives Way | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

Tentative plans for ex-President Harry S. Truman to visit the University in the near future have fallen through, it was learned recently. At the invitation of the United Nations Council and the Young Democratic Club, Truman had agreed to stop here during a trip to Boston this month...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Truman Visit Meets Delay | 2/7/1959 | See Source »

...months. One day while she was having lunch he had gone right into her cubicle and learned her name from her books. She had small handwriting. And then he had left everything just as it was, and never said anything. Sometimes he'd stop working and just watch the back of her hair net.) This was too good to miss now, having her see him right there getting a shoeshine...

Author: By Bartle Bull, | Title: Dangerous Interlude | 2/6/1959 | See Source »

...executions did not stop, and in the canebrakes many another score was settled. In Santiago, five more losers were shot, in Matanzas five, in Cardenas six. So far at least 258 have died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: The Scolding Hero | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

...demanded a Cabinet member. "I can't even have a private interview with him. Pretty soon he's going to be really running this government or not running it at all. Privately, Prime Minister Jose Miro Cardona submitted his resignation, demanding that Castro join the Cabinet or stop dictating the show. Castro drove to Miro's home and patched things up. Castro's choice as successor "if I am killed": his brother Raul, 28, chill-eyed commander in Santiago, where 100 have been shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: The Scolding Hero | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

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