Word: chokingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is more than one way to kill a cat. The grimalkin of racial prejudice may choke on warm milk as easily as succumb to a brickbat. Unfortunately the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination seems to believe it has, in the Fair Educational Practices Act, the only weapon which can banish the beast. In ordering Harvard to stop requesting photographs with freshman application forms, it serves the letter, but not the ultimate purpose, of the law it seeks to enforce...
...older nations the inflationary pattern varies. In Australia, also trying to expand too far too fast, prices have doubled since World War II, while wages have risen 160%. The government, in alarm, finally began to choke back on credit, raise taxes and cut down on public spending. Not even conservative, thrifty Denmark has escaped inflation. Denmark has a per capita income of $807, above average for Europe. Recently the Danes discovered that they were living too well. Lulled by the eager world market for their dairy products, bacon, beer, machinery and ships, they let wages, prices and production costs rise...
...Portland, Me., nabbed for disorderly conduct, Genevieve Lynch, 24, was being ushered into a cell when she tore the badge off the arresting patrolman, grabbed his tie and tried to choke him when he went after it, bit the leg of a second cop rushing in for the rescue, dug her teeth into the hand of a lieutenant who hoped to rescue his two casualties, was finally subdued and put in a cell by a fourth policeman who hurriedly slammed the cell door shut-square on his left hand...
...suddenly became possessed. They laughed insanely, screamed, danced, jumped about, became so frenetic that it took five men to hold one girl down. The first attack lasted five hours, but others soon followed. A girl might suddenly start screaming "He is coming! He is coming! He is going to choke me!" If another girl went to her aid, she was soon being choked too. Some girls complained of being pricked by needles, would thereupon go into a frenzy of body slapping, giggling, jumping and screaming. "One night," says an instructor, "was the worst ever. The girls punched, screamed, laughed until...
...signs are visible everywhere. British-not U.S.-cars choke Piccadilly, British weekers jam vacation resorts at Blackpool and Brighton. Simpson's in the Strand is serving its famed roast beef, and in poor neighborhoods, stores whose stock in trade was once chiefly Brussels sprouts and potatoes now feature oranges and even avocados. Across the North Sea. Scandinavians are thriving. Norway has rebuilt its merchant fleet to twice its prewar tonnage, added 100 hotels since 1945. Norwegian housewives, who bought only 2,000 washing machines in 1950, snapped up 64,000 last year. Even in chronically impoverished Ireland, real national...