Word: deadly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Some observers feel that Lausche might suffer as a national candidate because he is a Roman Catholic. In this connection it is perhaps significant that his main out-of-Ohio support comes from the South, which, since Al Smith in 1928, has had a reputation-perhaps undeserved -of being dead set against Catholic candidates for the Presidency. Others note that he has rarely made public appearances outside Ohio and is not well-known nationally. But last week the Cleveland Plain Dealer, writing out of long experience with Frank Lausche as a vote-getter, was only half-joking when it expressed...
...blunt words, President Eduardo Lonardi reported to his people last week on the state of the country's economy^ Argentina, he said, is like "a man eaten up by cancer, who looks healthy and capable of work until he suddenly falls down dead." The shocking facts of what had happened under Juan Peron...
...conscientious mothers. In those days solid foods weren't introduced until the child was nearly a year old, and bananas were considered indigestible. [He] had to wait until he was twelve years old before he was allowed his first half banana, and he almost expected to fall dead at the first taste of the forbidden fruit...
When the Supreme Court of Massachusetts finished talking, the press started. "Censorship is dead," one Boston editorial announced. Associated Press stories proclaiming the victory over prudery ran in papers all over the country. But not all the reaction to the court decision was so noisy. The Commissioner of Public Safety, who never seemed too happy about acting as a censor anyway, quietly dismantled his screening room and went back to his main business of inspecting buildings. And without much fanfare, the Brattle Theatre finally showed Miss Julie...
...further objectionable films, the State legislature is already trying to re-insert a watered-down version of the Sunday censorship law. A bill now before Massachusetts Senate aims to revitalize the statute, but specifically excepts motion pictures from any pre-censorship. Apparently, Sunday censorship is still not quite dead, even though the screening room of the Commission of Public Safety no longer echoes to the snips of cutting scissors. "I could drive to the Commission blindfolded, I've been there so often," Halliday once said. He had better not forget the way completely