Word: sats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...violence, few white Mississippians were ready to welcome the decision of the court. Only in districts with a high ratio of whites to blacks did desegregation bring a measure of integration. In Columbia, where whites outnumber blacks 3 to 1, high school students ignored eight pickets outside and sat down together in an assembly hall to cheer a black student leader who urged them to make their town "a lighthouse in Marion County." In Yazoo City, where the student population is almost evenly divided between whites and blacks, a majority of the whites showed up for registration and classes...
Magaziner wouldn't allow himself all the credit, though. "I've sat down with a number of administrators here," he said last spring, "for hours and hours, where we started off at completely opposite ends, and, after enough talking, we could in most cases come to agreement. It was because they listened...
...light blue-and-green sofa and the shining desk and the blue-and-green tinted lamps. This was like the house of one of his daughters-in-law: it made him nervous but of course he complimented her on her good taste. In a light-green armchair sat a pleasant, youngish man holding a small book. Vag looked at him curiously. He felt obliged to state his business, but he had none...
...sat down beside me on the couch, and explained her initial caution over the telephone. I'd called up cold and asked to see her, saying I'd been given her number by a Navy friend of mine. Luckily, I'd been equipped with enough information to verify a half-believable story...
...prose. "Shame on you, Allen," he interrupted, pointing at his bushy-bearded boy. "You are the guru of the flower generation, and you keep telling them to smoke pot and use LSD, knowing they can get in trouble with the police. You set a bad example." Allen, for once, sat speechless...