Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tennessee, one of the few states to abandon the wait-and-see lethargy of state capitals, has tackled the problem on a statewide basis. The state has asked permission to file a brief next month as a friend of the Supreme Court. Tennessee's brief is expected to suggest that schoolchildren be integrated gradually, beginning with the first grade and moving up through the grades as the years pass. Said State Solicitor General Allison B. Humphreys: "The question [of segregation] was settled by decision last May. We see no point in further arguing that issue." Meanwhile, Tennessee schools will...
...other side, enabled the pilot to spot and follow the path of least turbulence through the storm, or to detour conveniently if his route was clearly blocked. One important safety feature: the pilot, watching his scope, could see not only storms but the mountains-if any-that lay in wait inside them...
...fact, the choices in Europe were not that frightening. But in terms of forward motion, they were not bright. Years of procrastination and U.S. containment had allowed European attitudes to congeal into wait-and-seeism...
Also, Admiral Felix Stump, U.S. Navy commander in chief in the Pacific, turned up in Taipei, having inspected the Nationalist fleet and Nationalist-held Tachen Island. Asked if the Seventh Fleet's role would be purely defensive, the admiral said: "No commander likes to sit back and wait. Sometimes you have to go out and start shooting...
...Long Wait. In Jersey City, after admitting that she had not worked a single day as a clerk in the city's school system since September 1950, though she had collected $12,000 in salary, Mrs. Carolyn Reidy added: "I would have come to work if anyone had asked...