Word: 1950s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard Medical School psychiatry professor conducted radiation experiments on scores of retarded students at the Fernald School in the 1940s and 1950s, documents show...
...confinement his gifts were set free. Life on the outside unsettled him. He lived in hotels, traveling constantly and falling for good-looking straight ! guys or hustlers who knew an open wallet when they saw one. In the mid-1950s, after a long depression, Genet the confessional novelist re-emerged as a playwright consumed by public issues. In The Balcony and The Blacks he reworked his old obsession with power relations into taunting parables about race, social caste and colonialism. The Paris premiere of The Screens, with its veiled attack on the French suppression of Algeria, set off a week...
...1950s the launching of Sputnik sent chills of inferiority down American spines. Things have changed, and last Saturday 200 artifacts from the Soviet space program went up for auction at Sotheby's in New York City...
...amnesty program to collect illegal weapons. Cabinet members chimed in as well. Attorney General Janet Reno talked of limiting the number of weapons an individual could own. Secretary Shalala said gun violence should be considered "a public-health crisis that requires public-health solutions," like polio in the 1950s and AIDS today. Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders asked Americans not to buy toy guns for children this Christmas. "We know that toy guns were used to commit 30,000 robberies in the last five years," she said, "and many times our children feel that real guns are just like toys...
...example, a company traditionally more comfortable with the patrician styles of Ford's own family princes, had never seen the likes of its new chairman. Trotman has forged his career by going against the patrician grain at every opportunity. As a product manager at British Ford in the late 1950s, he made his first mark by taking on the senior engineers to develop its Cortina, which became one of its most successful product introductions ever. Raised in Scotland, the son of a carpet layer and upholsterer and the only non-college graduate to hold the top position, Trotman is better...