Word: better
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...watched 91 murders, seven holdups, three kidnapings, ten thefts, four burglaries, two cases of arson, two jailbreaks, two suicides, a homicidal explosion, one blackmail and assorted cases of assault & battery and attempted murder. All of this violence, reported Mrs. Clara Logan, president of the Southern California Association for Better Radio and Television, was seen by association members-between the hours of 4 and 9 p.m.-during one week of television shows over six of Los Angeles' seven TV stations...
White-haired Lorenzo Garcia, the only man allowed within its walls, had been the cloister's sexton for almost 40 years when his curiosity about the tombs finally got the better of him. One night while the nuns were safely asleep, Garcia pried open one of the coffins with a heavy metal hook. After fishing around patiently, he pulled out a fragment of gold brocade. Then, afraid of a sound scolding from the abbess, he hid his find, kept his secret to himself. Finally Garcia confided in Archeologist José Luis Monteverde, curator of national property. Monteverde communicated with...
Metropole suggested that a Ross by any other name is just no Ross at all; nor, despite Lee Tracy's expert performance, any real fun. Besides shackling The New Yorker to a leaden plot, it spoofed it with a stridency better suited to the old Police Gazette. Metropole did have funny moments; but they were mere lampposts on a long, dark, unpaved, downhill road...
...three days trying to analyze the strengths and weaknesses, the failures and successes of Communism. Last week, at Buck Hill Falls, Pa., Methodists assembled for the tenth annual meeting of their Board of Missions and Church Extension. Some of what they heard was cheering: Chinese Communists were treating missionaries better than had been expected and the church in the U.S. was growing fast enough to put up a new church building every...
...Chicago department store, Santa found that many moppets were fascinated by the ticking of his watch, decided to do even better. He buried an alarm clock in his stuffed paunch. All went well until the alarm went off, sent terrified children scampering across the floor...