Word: transferable
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...thank God I was able to transfer my average son from a public high school to a fine private school in New York City. The encouragement and attention given there has made him anxious and able to attend a fine college...
...ceremony in Air Force One occurred at 2:38 p.m., just 98 minutes after John Kennedy was officially declared dead. Technically, Johnson had become President the moment that Kennedy died. But with that ceremony, President Johnson seemed to realize for the first time that the transfer of responsibility was real. And as the blue and white plane sped through clear skies toward Washington at 635 m.p.h., the President, as a President must, began to make decisions. Any personal meditation on the day's events would have to wait until later...
...also armed and wearing a Halloween mask, appeared on the other side of the Ford. The thieves knew what they wanted. Inside the old station wagon, guarded by six unarmed messengers, was a load of jewelry and gold bullion valued at some $3,000,000. It was a routine transfer of valuables between wholesalers and repair firms and jewelry merchants; by using dowdy and inconspicuous delivery methods-old car, unarmed guards in mufti-jewelers feel they have the safest insurance against holdups...
...generals promised that when "all democratic institutions have been set up," the rebels will "transfer all the powers back to our entire people," hinted at elections within a year. In the meantime, as many political shades as possible will be represented in the new government, but, said Defense Minister Don, "we don't want any neutralists." Before the week was out, the regime lifted martial law and censorship. First to recognize South Viet Nam's new government were Malaysia and Thailand, followed by Great Britain and the U.S., which also prepared to restore a $12 million-a-month...
Committeeman Arthur Gartland fortunately won reelection, although by an undeservedly narrow margin. He will again be the only member of the Committee willing to concede the existence of de facto segregation. If Gartland continues working to make transfer policies more liberal and to improve the quality of education in the predominantly Negro schools in Boston, he ought to receive better treatment from the city's voters in 1965 than he did last week...