Word: containment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dirty Digs." Nothing seems too trifling to pink a sensibility. NBC's files contain a letter in behalf of leather-jacket manufacturers, protesting the jacket's use as "a sort of TV shorthand" for juvenile hoodlums. In Kansas the Independence Reporter ran an editorial accusing the networks of airing "dirty little nonsensical digs" at Kansas. Wrote a Pittsburgh physician: "Why is it that whenever a TV situation calls for a pharmacist he is always a doddering old incompetent?" Complained a Las Vegas waitress: "Something [should] be done about always depicting a waitress as a hardboiled, gum-chewing, illiterate...
...make monsters. His principal items of equipment are an X-ray machine, a few delicate instruments and an incubator stocked with fertile hens' eggs. The results are enshrined along the walls of his spotless laboratory in row upon row of glass jars filled with alcohol. The jars contain hundreds of monstrous chicks-chicks with one eye or three eyes or no eye at all, with four legs or three legs or two legs fused into one. There are two-headed chicks and three-headed chicks. Professor Wolff created them all deliberately...
Besides Repetto, the starting lineup may contain five other seniors playing their last home game for Harvard. The tentative batting order sees junior Tom Bergantino at third, junior Bob Cleary at second, captain John Simourian at first, and senior Bob Hastings batting cleanup and playing short...
...Eduardo Lonardi took inland Cordoba, but General Aramburu, attempting to subvert the garrison at Curuzu Cuatia, had to get out afoot when Perón poured reinforcements against him. After three days of fighting, Perón's general staff in Buenos Aires correctly concluded that it could contain the uprising-and it probably would have, except for a rebel admiral named Isaac Rojas, who had commanded the uprising at a naval base, was now heading for the capital in the captured cruiser General Belgrano, once the U.S.S. Phoenix. Rojas' fighting reputation had gone ahead of him. "Damnation...
Upon receiving the Loeb gift, President Pusey called for an immediate start in securing designs for a building which will contain the specifications mentioned above. It is understood that this will involve some type of competition between various architects interested in the building...