Word: means
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...lunches. I never even try to get a boy who's all-city or anything like that. I look for good boys on bad teams. I like to get boys from poor families, or maybe boys who had to quit school. I want 'em hungry, but not mean. They come down here without seeing the campus-they might not come if they saw it first...
Some of the city's parochial schools were segregated and some were not; Archbishop Ritter ordered in 1947 that all be integrated at once. "The cross on top of our schools must mean something," he said. When a group of diehard segregationists threatened to take legal action, Archbishop Ritter squelched them fast with the announcement that anyone involved in such a movement would be excommunicated...
Churchill typifies the son fulfilling "a parental daydream." When Lord Randolph Churchill's political career collapsed, 13-year-old Winston vowed: "My father was Chancellor of the Exchequer, and I mean to be the same one day." The lad burned to help his father "in every fight on every march." Said Winston at his father's death in 1895: "The dunce of the family will take revenge on the whole pack of curs and traitors...
Although the convention intends to circumvent the political problems in the Legislature, this does not mean that the professional politicians will not be its dominant leaders--for good or bad. The group will be small--140; 120 will be elected by Senatorial districts and 20 by the whole state, giving the established politician a better chance in these fairly large units. One plan would have given the Legislature 20 seats and barred them from the general elections, but this idea was rejected as both impractical and as an undemocratic restriction on the electorate...
...tutor said that in his section "reactions are mixed, but they are all rather curious to see what is going to happen." An Ec 98 student commented, "This is going to mean hard work...