Word: care
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dave Beck-a man who has never been known to brawl himself-used violence as calculatingly as a general uses artillery. His teamsters could take care of themselves on almost any picket line. At one time he announced that hundreds of them were being trained in jujitsu and boxing for the sake of their health...
Americans must care, not because they hanker to be loved by all the world (as some probers of the American psyche have suggested), but because the U.S. is engaged in a crucial contest with Soviet Russia for the world's faith and allegiance. Russian-born Newsman Andre Visson (now a U.S. citizen, columnist for the Washington Post and international affairs consultant for Reader's Digest) has tackled the task of exploring Europe's view of the U.S. His findings appeared last week in As Others See Us (Doubleday; $3). Visson reaches the conclusion that...
...needed to take care of even the skeleton 80-man crew planned for the trip, will have to be collected from Harvard Clubs and graduates throughout the nation. To make up some of this sum the Band may play to Harvard Clubs in San Francisco and, on the way back, Chicago...
Penny-a-Liner. Dirty, ragged, hideously misprinted, sometimes illustrated with pictures that had nothing to do with the text, the penny-dreadfuls had many of the virtues of naked imagination, all the vices of standardized hack work. Their authors, paid by the line (less than a penny), took care that each scream, each gush of blood, even each sentence, received a line all to itself-and thereby laid the foundation of the clipped, brusque speech of the contemporary thriller. Their immediate fascination and influence were enormous. Charles Dickens' low-life reflected their high-spots, Wilkie Collins refined their eeriness...
Bill Bingham's nice white goalposts lasted about 15 seconds before being shredded into a thousand souvenirs. The boys didn't care which goalposts they took. Just so they were white and standing was all that mattered. The cops in blue guarding them just sort of disappeared. Maybe they were trampled into the ground, maybe they helped pull down the posts. It was hard to tell...