Word: bunks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President McCarthy puts it this way: "We think that all this bunk by Sigmund Fraud (sic) is just that. In this school we teach facts, the kind of facts you can't dispute, and techniques which have worked from today clear back to the year...
Into A Sleep of Prisoners, Quakerish Playwright Fry has done his earnest best to pack a van load of meaning about the state of modern man. Four prisoners of an unidentified war are locked up in a church and bunk down for a restless night. Most of the action consists of their separate dreams, each one involving the others, a series of merging playlets stretched on the frames of familiar Bible stories (Cain and Abel, David and Absalom, Abraham and Isaac...
Holmes, a slender, 39-year-old Negro, had loosened a piece of slate on the floor under the bunk in his cell. Then he chipped patiently through ten inches of concrete, burrowed diagonally downward for ten feet and leveled off under the massive stone wall. He kept digging, tunneled on under a dry moat, then turned upward again. He had 26 feet to go to reach the surface...
...year stretch for burglary, Convict Holmes broke through in a grassy plot outside the prison walls, hopped over a 7-ft. picket fence, and disappeared into the surrounding city of Baltimore. Nobody missed him until next morning, when a guard checked a motionless lump on Holmes' bunk. It was a wadded blanket and a pillow...
...TVmen themselves. In a poll, the trade journal Ross Reports found that many TV executives, creative personnel and performers believe TV is just "warmed-over" radio, and needs more original shows, better news programs, more adequate public service and education efforts. Said one writer: "Culture sunk, an increase of bunk." Complained an announcer: "The number of commercials is driving even me batty...