Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Captain Charlie Hamm led the shutout with a 3-0 victory over Kay Champion. His eight teammates, from number three man to number nine, also turned in 3 to 0 sweeps. The result of the match was never in doubt to the unbeaten squash team, which will seek its sixth straight win against Williams Wednesday...
...interesting section on the program. Freed from the confines of an artificial, pre-arranged scheme of notes, the ringers are enabled to express themselves directly, each one following his natural and spontaneous whim, without the constraining necessity of noticing what his fellow-ringers are doing. The bells are without doubt an ideal medium for this kind of improvisation, providing an immediacy of response and variety of expression unsurpassable on any instrument. The popularity of these sections testify to the sensitivity and unerring rhythmic awareness of the ringers...
...problems of radio and TV transmission from outer-space satellites practically solved, we can at last look forward to laxative commercials from the region of Mars, and words from our sponsor on "How to Break the Habit" from the sphere of Venus. The Man in the Moon will no doubt switch to Chesterfields-and there will be more sinister orders to come. From the ridiculous to the subliminal is only a second step...
...commissioner was frozen, all right -but with pure anger. Barked Tough Cop Kennedy, who brooks no doubt about his responsibility and authority: "If the police are unionized, I advise the people not to waste their money paying the police commissioner a salary. Hoffa would be the police commissioner, so why waste the money?" Said the hard-boiled Daily News: "Public opinion will approve overwhelmingly any steps-repeat any steps-Commissioner Kennedy may take to crush this attempt." At City Hall, Mayor Robert Wagner found his voice, pounded his desk, called Feinstein's announcement "dastardly" and a "disgrace," promised...
Shelley scarcely seems to try. He merely offers solemn, almost sorrowful comments on some of the irritating incongruities of modern life. Take air travel, says Shelley, with the carefully controlled tension of a man who has already taken altogether too much. "I never have the slightest doubt about my safety in a plane until I walk into an airport terminal and realize that there is a thriving industry in this building selling life insurance policies . . . What they do by this power of suggestion is that they plant the seed of doubts into an already chicken human being...