Word: ervin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...While Hungarian immigrants in the stands shouted insults at the Russians, both teams traded blows. One of the Russian players muttered a nasty word, "Fascist," and a Russian haymaker almost flattened Hungary's Antol Bolvari. In the closing minutes Russia's Vladimir Prokopov brutally butted Hungarian Center Ervin Zador under the eye and the Hungarian climbed out of the water, streaming blood. The Russians were too far behind (4-0) to win anyway, so officials stopped the game rather than wait for a full-fledged riot...
...ignorant to cut out Private Ervin's picture, not only because it violates all rules of journalism but because it also violates all moral and social rules. The Morning Star is hardly a newspaper, and anyone who breathes air should see this prime example of the stagnant condition of the South...
...Matthew C. McKeon (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). As soon as the paper hit his desk, the editor on duty gulped and stopped the presses. He had failed to notice, in the shadowy impression on the Associated Press mat that supplied the picture, that one of the marines, Private Eugene W. Ervin of Bridgeport, Conn., was a Negro. The deskman met the crisis by ordering a pressman to take hammer and chisel to the press plate. Next morning Private Ervin's ragged ghost haunted the spot (see cut) where the Morning Star cut out the Negro and spited its front page...
Later, as tempers flared still higher, North Carolina's salty Democratic Senator Sam Ervin cut smoothly between the two, reminded them that "Jonah made a very wise remark to the whale. He told the whale if he had kept his mouth shut, that thing wouldn't have happened." Both Jackson and Engine Charlie joined in the laughter and later shook hands...
Though it tolerates doctors and considers Christian Science a "totalitarian Church," New Thought shares with Christian Science much matter if little manner. Some of last week's subjects: "Freedom from Disease," "A Grand Time Living." The Rev. Ervin Seale of Manhattan's Church of Truth titled his lecture "Where Is Bridey Murphy Now?" and suggested that perhaps she was "in" Hypnotist Morey Bernstein. The Rev. Sarah Solada of the First Church of Understanding in Detroit gave her audience a "treatment" for money. Instructing them to clutch a dollar bill tight while she was talking, she went...