Word: takeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CREDIT, which was once the sign that a person had trouble meeting his bills, has taken on a glamorous new meaning in recent years. Now a man with a credit card can rent a plane or boat or car, live it up in nightclubs, take a safari to Africa and even get a Kelly Girl for temporary office help. Why? Because of the Credit-Card Game, see BUSINESS...
...both of us jumped up at the same time." But for a man ready to preside over the dissolution of the public school system first proposed by Thomas Jefferson in 1779, Lindsay Almond was remarkably relaxed. "I feel very well, thank you," said he. "But I would like to take a stroll in the country, for I love the country...
...says a longtime Almond adversary, N.A.A.C.P. Special Counsel Thurgood Marshall. "He is a good lawyer." Precisely because he is a good lawyer, Lindsay Almond understands that Virginia, in its "massive resistance" delaying tactics, is merely living from stay to stay. Sighed the Governor last week, "We might have to take it between the eyes...
...worked in a sawmill and a gristmill, plowed a straight furrow, shocked corn and sowed wheat and milked cows, and, with the help of a $10-a-month scholarship, earned enough to go to the University of Virginia. At that, he had to quit for two years to take a $125-a-month job as principal of a four-room Orange County school before returning to Charlottesville and graduating, in 1923, from law school...
...contempt-of-court charges. If that happens, the Governor is required to shut down the school that is involved. Almond need not wait for the Negro children to set foot on the school grounds; he can, as he did last week at Warren County High School in Front Royal, take over as soon as there has been a final, unappealable integration order...