Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...passing the Smith Act, Howe said, Congress itself the right to decide that advocacy of revolution presents "a clear and present danger" to the government...
With specific reference to the 11 Communists, Howe commented, "I may be very innocent, but it doesn't seem to the that they present a 'clear and present danger' to the government...
...gunman told Mahoney and O'Brien to stand still until the store was clear of customers. He then ordered them to stay in the rear room...
Author Morton Thompson (Joe, the Wounded Tennis Player) dignifies his novelized life of Semmelweis by steering clear of the soupy fantasies that make a lot of biographical fiction worthless. The Cry and the Covenant was read for errors by a leading Manhattan gynecologist, who found none. Even the inevitably idyllic love affair (at 38 Semmelweis married a girl of 18) is anchored firmly in fact. "An editor suggested that I have him fall in love sooner," reports Author Thompson. "I said, 'What do you want me to do-make him fall in love with an eleven-year-old girl...
...ordered up a couple of beers while the jukebox was grinding out Jealous Heart, danced about, began fooling around the shuffleboard game. Then Granillo tossed a couple of heavy shuffleboard weights across the crowded room. Bartender Edgar Gray (at right behind bar) told him to clear out. Trying to scare Granillo, Gray pretended to call the cops. "He started coming toward me," said Gray. "He started calling me a lotta names. I got rattled." From behind the bar he grabbed a pistol, shot and killed Eugene Granillo. Police held Bartender Gray on a homicide charge...