Word: biased
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Minister of Interior, Franco chose Bias Gómez Perez, who loudly brayed: "Repression with unswerving energy of all provocations or acts of sabotage." Gómez replaced Colonel Valti Galaraza Morante, a militarist who feuded with Falangist civil governors...
...programs given his patrons he had inserted a card bearing his wartime views: "We feel privileged at this vital time in our world's history to present a collection of clothes carefully attuned to Government Order L-85. Here, briefly, are the highlights of this Government ruling: No bias or dolman sleeves. No woolen evening wraps. No woolen evening dresses. A maximum of 144-inch sweep for evening dresses. No suit jacket over 25 inches long. No cuffs on suits. No patch pockets. No belt over two inches wide. No overskirts...
...biggest Negro papers-the Pittsburgh Courier (circ. 130,000) and the Chicago Defender (circ. 83,000)-for exploiting the war emergency to stir up race issues among Negroes in the services. He called them "reminiscent of Hearst at his worst in their sensationalism, and in their obvious inflammatory bias in the treatment of news." In addition he indicted them for exploiting their own people with sucker ads (Luck's Genuine Magnetic Lodestones, $1, etc.), for scandalous gents' room journalism, for whooping up race antagonism for circulation's sake...
Variety's Editor Bob Landry has been a spectator of broadcasting and its people for nine years. Moonfaced, high-voiced, crinkle-grinning and articulate, he began by sticking his neck out and has affably continued to do so. His only bias lay in the fact that his readers are show people...
...Professor Morison's favorite stories concerns the yessing habits of Latin American Indians, which, he believes, account for some of the strange misinformation Columbus picked up. One day in the Gulf of Darien, Morison and friends took on a San Bias Indian as a pilot. They asked him: "Can we carry three fathoms of water through this passage?" "Yes," said the Indian. "Is there a good anchorage in there and can we get water?" "Yes," said the Indian. Then a mate who had had some experience with Indians took a hand. "Does the pink, pot-bellied ostrich live...