Word: wee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...result of actions taken by the newly-appointed Massachusetts' unique Imbalance Act, giving it the power to withhold tax funds from any city with racially imbalanced schools (schools with more than 50 per cent Negro enrollment), the State Board has refused to accept Boston's own corrective plans. They wee clearly designed to get around the question of busing and, for that matter, the question of de facto segregation. Earlier this month, despite confident School Committee predictions to the contrary, the Board invoked the Act against Boston...
Johnson set the tone for the week by dancing into the wee hours after Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had gone home at midnight, following a state dinner in her honor at the White House. He signaled the scarlet-coated Marine Band to strike up Hello, Dolly!, fox-trotted with more than a dozen partners. Despite the rule that nobody leaves a social event before the President does, only a handful of the 140 guests managed to outlast him. Even Aides Marvin Watson and Jack Valenti, one of whom usually escorts the President to his White House bedroom each night...
...yearly newsletter filled with members' adventures in impromptu music-making in far-off lands and chatty items about "an intradirectory wedding, bassoon-C to cello-D." Membership ranges from Foreign Policy Association President Samuel Hayes (viola-B) to a Manhattan night elevator operator (cello-B) who held wee-hour sessions in the coal bin of his building. Says Miss Rice: "There are a great many of us queer ducks who really love to play just for the sheer...
...Vietnamese rank of captain, is pronounced dye wee by Americans and used to designate anyone in charge of anything...
...About your piece on the Star's 85th anniversary celebration [Oct. 1]: The quotation on my funeral was a wee bit garbled. What I said was that I would have the biggest funeral anybody ever had in Kansas City because, after all the political battles I had been through, folks would show up to be sure the old bastard was dead. Your story said "their old master." I have never been a master of anybody, including myself sometimes, I think...