Word: cruel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bathed in the soft light of a July evening, were covered with an undulating mass of human bodies, and the romantic mixture of perfume and sweat nauseated him slightly. "Obscenity everywhere," thought Vag, and he slowly turned up Plympton Street, feeling a bit out of place in such a cruel setting...
Reasonable Search. In Salem, Mass., Probate Judge John V. Phelan, denying a man's request for divorce, ruled that his wife's preventing him from entering her apartment to look for a suspected lover was not cruel and abusive treatment...
Textual Behavior. In Des Moines, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled out as grounds for divorce a charge by Mrs. Valera M. Clough that one of her husband's "cruel and inhuman" practices was to read aloud from Dr. Alfred Kinsey's study of American women...
Divorced. By Denholm Elliott, 35, British actor of screen (The Heart of the Matter, The Cruel Sea) and stage (Broadway's Ring Round the Moon): Virginia McKenna. 26, blonde British cinemactress (The Cruel Sea, The Barretts of Wimpole Street); after three years of marriage, no children; in an uncontested action, on grounds of adultery with strapping Cinemactor Bill (Wee Geordie) Travers; in London...
...crew turned helium into it, and bit by bit a bubble of plastic reared upward. At last the balloon, as tall as a 25-story building, was standing upright in the still early-morning air. At 6:27 a.m., it took off. Kittinger, his heartbeat still steady, radioed "Goodbye, cruel world...