Word: eldon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ultimatum was prompted by a contempt case in which it was fined $140 for distributing an issue of Newsweek containing a story that was held prejudicial to Dr. Adams' case. While punishing the distributor, the court did not punish Newsweek, ruled that Newsweek's London bureau chief, Eldon W. Griffiths, was not responsible.' since he testified that he had cabled nothing on the Adams trial and that the offending account had been written in New York from newspaper clippings...
...late in the century to treat either Actress Swanson's merits as a performer or the Hollywood morals of her heyday as if they were burning issues. For all practical purposes, the Ku Klux Klan is just as dated, but Wallace produced its Imperial Wizard Eldon L. Edwards in a flurry of bedsheets and a flourish of portentous announcements. Edwards, a tongue-tied Atlanta paint sprayer, was a sitting duck for Wallace's speechifying, loaded questions. He managed to emit a few typical noises; e.g., the Bible teaches segregation (though he could not quote a supporting text...
...flat, long light of a late afternoon last week, the oil exploration boat Submarex rode gently in the Pacific swell near the Southern California town of Redondo Beach. Below the water's surface. Professional Diver Eldon W. Smith, 31, began his ascent. Suddenly, the men on the Submarex intercom heard a scream tear from inside Smith's helmet: the diver, apparently rising too fast, was struck with caisson disease-knifelike jabs of pain caused by the accumulation of deadly nitrogen bubbles in the bloodstream-the "bends...
...wife and two sons arrived, agonizingly watched the rescue work through the chamber windows. The frantic minutes dragged by: the decompression cycle began. For eight hours and 40 minutes, Bill Biller worked desperately. Then, thrashing in gasping spasms before the anguished and horrified eyes of his wife, Eldon Smith died...
Finally, the last of the pressurized air whistled dryly out of the tank, and Biller heard the clank of eight bolts. It was 39 hours after he entered the chamber-30 hours since Eldon Smith died-when the entrance hatch opened and Bill Biller returned somberly to the world of the living...