Word: bladed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outlook for Congrave was poor. He would probably live, but the skate blade had slashed through the areas that control speech and the movement of the right side of the body. It had also cut some of the white fibers leading from the retinas of both eyes to the visual center in the back of the brain, and other fibers leading from the frontal cortex (associated with intellectual and reasoning functions) to other parts of the brain. George Congrave, 21, a chemical engineering student from Edson, Alberta, seemed likely to spend the rest of his life more like a vegetable...
...start of the uproar over Little Rock one night last September, six hooded men grabbed a Negro named Judge Aaron on a lonely road in Alabama, took him to a deserted shack, castrated him with a razor blade, poured turpentine into the wound (TIME, Sept. 16). Six members of the Ku Klux Klan were arrested by Alabama police and charged with mayhem. One of the men explained: "We just wanted some nigger at random...
...thought I was queer--there's not much to Eskimos, as I said. But they believed me. Then I told them about the Epic of Nanook. 'They just discovered it,' I'd say. 'It's really exciting. Seven volumes chipped on huge blocks of ice with a primitive axe blade. Then I'd give them this story about the great migration of Nanook's people. All about how they crossed the Bering Strait on rafts into Siberia and built these huge cities with walls of solid ice. What a civilization--and the girls swallowed...
Publisher Block did not crow to his readers. A research chemist who earned degrees from Yale, Harvard and Columbia before taking over following the death of Paul Block Sr. in 1941, dark-haired, retiring Paul Block, 46, dispassionately analyzed Toledo's "evil hoax" both in the evening Blade and its sister paper, the stodgy morning Times (41,841), which had also avoided the racial tag but stirred few complaints. (The Block-owned Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, which is published by younger brother William, has the same racial policy...
...Page One editorial, the Blade explained that it avoids racial identifications in crime stories because 1) "a crime is the same regardless of who commits it." and 2) "such identification is often confused and mistaken." From last week's scare, the Blade was able to add a new argument for holding to its policy. "As all of us have seen," said the editorial, racial identification in a crime story "clearly plays into the hands of those who would stir up animosity...