Word: beading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Politicians & Profits. The Post also keeps a sharp and critical eye on the island's Australian government. "Nobody ever got hurt by free speech except bad politicians and complacent bureaucrats," said Glover, drawing an early bead on both. His paper constantly needles the administration's listless native education program, helped earn New Guinea's Chinese new recognition as suitable candidates for citizenship, patiently runs down every tale of Jim Crow injustice from its colored readers. As vigorous a practitioner as a preacher, the Post four years ago set up a native training program in its composing room...
Bare-Breasted Boldness. With Bell's approval, Editor Grosvenor drew a bead on the world's armchair explorers. In the name of geography he exposed the female breast, printed a 1903 study of two tawny Tagbanua belles eclipsed only to the waist by a stand of Philippine rice. Such displays became Geographic fixtures. He expanded geographical boundaries to embrace first-person travelogues from Tahiti, Siberia and the Yukon, kite construction (they were Bell's kites), the sex life of the aborigines, and skin tattoos. In 1905 he came up to a deadline with an eleven-page hole...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). A play about Chicago's St. Valentine's Day Massacre of 1929, during which Al Capone's men drew a murderous bead on Bugs Moran and succeeded only in killing seven other guys...
Drawing a bead on the moon is something like shooting a duck from a spinning merry-go-round, using a bullet that takes two days to creep near its target. The moon has its own motion; it speeds around the earth on a somewhat elliptical orbit at 2,300 m.p.h.*Even more disturbing to the moon-marksmen is the rotation of the earth. In every minute, the earth rotates enough to make a 1,000-mile difference in the rocket's position when and if it reaches the moon's orbit...
...McGowen's men, armed with an air rifle loaded with a nicotine-tipped needle, climbed to the rooftop near the spot where Maverick liked to laze. Soon Maverick appeared and stretched out in the shade. For two hours the man with the gun maneuvered to get a bead. Then he shot...