Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Commission to examine the voting records of two counties in his circuit. From his bench in Montgomery, he threatened to throw any "federal police'' who came around into jail. Even after Federal Judge Johnson,directly ordered him to permit examination of the voting records. Wallace refused, instead turned them over to county grand juries he had hurriedly called. (The grand juries, in turn, later bowed before the Johnson order to make the records available to the Civil Rights Commission.) "I have no apologies for any action," Wallace said. "I am ready to face any consequences I may have...
...children who have been denied public school education since last September, when six white secondary schools were closed by Virginia's massive-resistance to Federal District Court integration orders. ¶ In Little Rock, Governor Orval Faubus, beginning his third term, called for a state constitutional amendment that would turn over state and local education funds to school districts which, in turn, would dole funds to each student. Pupils would then use the money to pay for their schooling elsewhere. And a state legislative committee, finishing its investigation of the integration crisis, reported with straight faces, that "there has been...
...sophomore, Herman H. Hall '61, was quickly cornered by Dean's Office agents and readily admitted the incident. "So I didn't turn the exam sheet over, so I didn't see half the exam," he snarled...
...true author. The other virtue is that Author Coates has managed to recapture much of the attitude to love and life that Jane Austen once expressed in a single short query: "For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn...
...French are very much given to psychology and the like in their film making, and Inspector Maigret has more than its share. Mother-son, husband-wife, wife-mother-in-law relations are explored somewhat to the detriment of the story, but Gabin manages to turn the whole pot-pourri into a first-rate show...