Word: beatness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...narrowest possible meaning to the Supreme Court's Watkins decision: Miller, while before a House Un-American Activities subcommittee, had not protested the pertinence of a question about Communist writers he had known. ¶The National Association of Attorneys General, holding a convention in Sun Val ley, Idaho, beat down attempts to criticize the Supreme Court by resolution, but only after the association's president. New Hampshire's Attorney General Louis Wyman (whose anti-subversive activities had just been rebuked by the Supreme Court in the case of sometime University of New Hampshire Lecturer Paul Sweezy...
...burglary, assault and battery, stabbing, and slugging a cop. He was also rough on Marty, eldest of his six sons-a roughness that hardened into perpetual rage last fall, when the boy quit junior high school to take a job as a glassmaker's apprentice, then bought a beat-up '46 Dodge. Marty's father would not work-Mrs. Daniels supported the family as a $46-a-week bookbinding machine operator. But Marty's father liked to drive Marty's jalopy, and if he went out at night and found it short...
Mourning the japesters' heyday of James Thurber, Dorothy Parker, Frank Sullivan and Robert Benchley, aging (54) Poetical Punster Ogden Nash laid the blame for lost laughter to the cold war and a generation of young writers "who feel it their business to attack incest." Invited by Night Beat TV Interviewer Al Morgan to select one poem from the Golden Trashery of Ogden Nashery most likely to survive the ice age 'of creeping exurbia and the great woolly adman, Nash moodily recalled "some hair-of-the-dog-gerel from my unregenerate youth: 'Candy is dandy, but liquor...
...arrested for major crimes; of these, one in five came from a university. A sampling of what has been going on: ¶ In December, a Meiji University student stabbed and killed a taxi driver to get money to buy a few drinks. ¶ In February, four more Meiji students beat and robbed another driver...
...atmosphere swirls with big and little storms. Its oceans are stirred by currents. Its solid crust shakes like jelly, and its plastic interior probably flows slowly in largely unknown ways. Influence? from the sun and beyond the sun affect the passive earth. Cosmic rays from the depths of space beat upon it, and meteors plunge like fireflies into its atmosphere. Its magnetic field fluctuates slightly; so does its gravitation. Scientists are sure that all these changes and influences are interconnected in intricate ways, but no one knows just how, because no one has "ever observed them all in detail during...