Word: displays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Murderer?" Tony once rasped to a reporter. "He kill anybody in your family yet?" Al was proud of his children and became a heavy spender in New York toy stores. He was mourned last week, however, in a very narrow circle. Only Tough Tony gave any public display of grief. When a New York Daily News reporter called him and announced that Al had been shot to death, Tony said: "What the hell kind of a joke do you call that?" "It's no joke," said his informant. "Oh, my God," moaned Tony...
Americans long downgraded Soviet scientific accomplishments, DeWitt said, but then came a display of modern Russian weapons "too much to be explained solely by Soviet reliance on captured German brains and stolen secrets...
...method to avoid the lack of concern most students display toward Gen Ed A papers might well be to have papers, written for their general education courses, also submitted to Gen Ed A section men for comment and criticism. Theoretically, the papers done for all general education courses are supposed to help teach freshmen how to write. In fact, the average section man in these courses either does not feel competent to comment on the stylistic aspects of the paper or feels it burdensome to do so, and limits his comments to evaluations of the ideas expressed...
After a pre-election display of forensic talent, the Cambridge City Council came out for the abolition of the Proportional Representation system of balloting, by a 5-3-1 vote...
...crude, vulgar and unbecoming display of a nasty temper." Thus wrote Florida's Supreme Court in 1953, scolding Circuit Judge Stanley Milledge for the way he had bawled out an attorney in his courtroom. In Miami last week, testy, white-haired Judge Milledge, 61, flew into another tantrum and onto Florida front pages in probably the least judicial photograph of a judge yet to reach print...