Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boycott spread to nearby Lincoln, where 116 out of 146 pupils refused to go to the elementary school. That night a motorcade cruised through the county with such banners as "Stay Out of School:", "Kick 'Em Out;" and in a field opposite the Milford high school, a wooden cross was set on fire. Finally the Milford school board decided to give in, ordered the eleven Negroes dropped from the rolls. Crowed Bryant Bowles: "The only thing black in the schools tomorrow will be the blackboards...
...There was a brave young German veteran who had risked his life trying to assassinate Hitler, carrying as his scars a twisted arm, a wooden leg and a tormented disenchantment with America: "How do you think Germans like myself, always orating about your splendid freedom, felt when those itinerant clowns, Cohn and Schine, came through Germany ticking off your Foreign Service officers for their purging? Can you imagine how loud the Nazis laughed about 'the American way' of doing things...
Without so much as an intoxicated crowd to help them along, or a press release to mark their passing, the last set of wooden goal posts left the Stadium last week. The usual accompaniment of the Harvard University Band was missing and there were no undergraduates triumphantly waving splinters. This was an official orderly ceremony: in their place H.A.A. workmen created] unyielding metal structures...
Once the victim of nameless assaulters every Saturday, the wooden posts have taken their place among the former traditions of Harvard College. Their passing might signify the end of gracious living here, except that there was never anything gracious about the struggling mobs...
...will return from a victory over Princeton and Yale soberly or otherwise, as the case may be, tack their program covers to the wall in deference to the tradition of while goal posts their predecessors fostered. Perhaps a dishonest few will sneak behind the Stadium and knock down the wooden goal posts on the practice field. Perhaps others will chip away the concrete in the Stadium itself. Or there might be a sudden rash of postgame helmet thefts...