Search Details

Word: topeka (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...with back-to-back wins last weekend. Earlier, the Lions were served up as a tidbit to a number one ranked Indiana Hoosiers squad over Christmas weekend, losing 106-63 in a game in which they were given as much of a shot as a flickering candle in a Topeka twister...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Columbia Lions Maul Hoopsters Despite Slipshod Play in Second Half | 2/14/1976 | See Source »

...Chief Justice Earl Warren, speaking for a unanimous Supreme Court, found for the plaintiff in the case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. Brown was Linda, a cheerful, slightly plump, eleven-year-old Kansas schoolgirl who happened to be black. Halfway through his opinion, the Chief Justice asked a long, deceptively innocent question: "Does segregation of children in public schools, solely on the basis of race, even though the physical facilities and other 'tangible' factors may be equal, deprive the children of the mi nority group of equal education opportunities? " His brief answer: "We believe that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Change of Heart | 2/9/1976 | See Source »

...They track her to an abandoned house and defend her against a roverpak in a boring, senseless and long drawn out shoot-out. Quilla June (Susanne Benton) then seduces Vic before he can rape her and manages to lure him to her home downunder. Quilla's community, a new Topeka, is composed of survivors convinced that America's Golden Age was in 1900 and determined to reproduce it in underground safety. Dissenters are executed by a humanoid robot dressed in overalls who snaps necks with his huge hands. Not too surprisingly, Vic doesn't fit into the Topekan society with...

Author: By Jefferson M. Flanders, | Title: If Dogs Run Free... | 10/23/1975 | See Source »

Even Linda Brown Smith, 32, whose father brought the suit against Topeka, Kans., schools that resulted in the Supreme Court's historic 1954 decision, has reservations about busing but sees no alternative to it. Says she: "To get racial balance in the school system I would have my children bused [her son and daughter walk to integrated schools]. This is what my father was fighting for more than 20 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCHOOLS: The Busing Dilemma | 9/22/1975 | See Source »

...Washington because "I just do not like living in the White House. You're almost not allowed to hurt yourself, to make mistakes." But he hesitates to move out because Sister Susan, 18, is away for several weeks, interning as a staff photographer on the Topeka State Journal and Daily Capital. Says Jack of his parents: "I had never realized until they called me [at school] one Saturday night recently. I could tell that the loneliness of this house overwhelmed them. They needed somebody to talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Young Critic in Residence | 7/21/1975 | See Source »

Previous | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | Next