Word: dossiers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...police dossier on Joseph Joanovici might read something like this...
...addition to these two records, Landau set a new indoor 60-yard high hurdles mark of :07.3 seconds, breaking the old mark of :07.4, and he added the 220-yard dash record to his string by running a 21.0 against Army. By way of completing his dossier, Landau has also run a :09.8 100, which would have tied the Harvard mark, but that, too, was disallowed because of a trailing wind...
...Screening Process. Of the 3,000,000 pilgrims who visit Lourdes each year, some 30,000 are stretcher cases avowedly hoping for cures. Most of these are examined before entering the water by a Bureau of Scientific Studies, which checks the medical history of the case and transmits a dossier to the Medical Bureau. If a patient later declares himself helped or cured, he is immediately examined by a doctor in attendance, who reports in turn to the bureau. This body of doctors (all Roman Catholic) meets almost every day at the height of the season, automatically rejects mental...
Pinfold clearly cannot take much more of this punishment; he begins to behave oddly in front of the other passengers and to send enigmatic messages to his wife. But he still struggles on against his ghostly tormentors, who possess "a huge but incomplete and wildly inaccurate dossier covering the whole of Mr. Pinfold's private life." Then, as suddenly as they began, the voices cease. He had been taking sleeping draughts, and when he stopped, the voices stopped...
Dirt for a Dossier. When a house built by a nonunion contractor (TIME, April 29) was dynamited in 1954, Murphy headlined his lead editorial: GET THE DYNAMITERS! He followed it up in the next ten weeks with eleven more editorials, pounding at local authorities to enlist county and state investigators for the man hunt. By last October, when a jury convicted four union leaders who had ordered the dynamiting, Murphy had racked up 27 editorials on the case, while the Times reporters had unearthed enough dirt to hand the McClellan committee a bulging dossier...