Word: waitress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first battle cry as two six-year-old Negro girls in neat green dresses, their hair done up in braids, came into view. "Pull their black curls out!" screeched one white woman. As the Negro six-year-olds tripped quietly into the schools, the crowds grew wilder. A white waitress raised a tattooed arm, threw a rock and hit a Negro woman on the chest. A Negro woman guided her grandchild quietly through a gauntlet of hissing whites until she broke under the strain, undid one button of her blouse and drew a knife. "If any of you jump...
...groaned. "You earn a place in the sun-no bigger than a dime-and it's contested every minute." Indeed, it seemed high time to trim the "Mason-Dixon line" with some low-calorie food, have his molars fixed and make a mild pass at a pretty young waitress. On such a scarred old whetstone, durable (57) Actor Elliott Nugent honed his low-pressure comedy tools last week and turned Studio One's The Unmentionable Blues into one of the more civilized comedies of the season. Looking like an older Steve Allen, Actor Nugent still exuded a trim...
...juvenile hoodlums. In Kansas the Independence Reporter ran an editorial accusing the networks of airing "dirty little nonsensical digs" at Kansas. Wrote a Pittsburgh physician: "Why is it that whenever a TV situation calls for a pharmacist he is always a doddering old incompetent?" Complained a Las Vegas waitress: "Something [should] be done about always depicting a waitress as a hardboiled, gum-chewing, illiterate woman...
...Queen Elizabeth ignored the 100-degree heat to come out to watch Althea play for the title against California's chunky Darlene Hard. It was no contest. Ranging the court like a restless panther, Althea had her big game zeroed in with power and precision. Darlene, a former waitress in Montebello, scampered to retrieve Althea's flat-trajectory volleys, but to little avail. Final score...
...Stuff." In his spare time he hooks rugs ("It's therapeutic"), works on portraits of his 22 grandchildren, has designed banners for the university's schools and colleges. He has an enthusiasm for heraldry and quill pen writing, once spent hours designing a silver box for a waitress who was retiring from one of the residential colleges. Last week, as news of his own retirement spread, he was absorbed in another sort of activity-reading the scores of letters from former students whom he had "set on fire." "Mostly sob stuff!" said Theodore Sizer gruffly...