Word: fanning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bullheads. For four days, as the trial went on, one boy after another described the sort of thing that goes on inside the adobe walls of Fort Grant. One boy testified that the superintendent had ordered him to hold on to two doorknobs, then lashed him with a fan belt. Another witness accused Guard Rudy Ramirez of going into inmates' rooms at night and whipping them for no apparent reason. "I saw [him] beat and kick another boy," said the witness. "He kicked him with his feet when he was down on the ground...
...Advancement for the Negro can best come gradually, aided by positive programs," Ivey claimed, and added that too hasty action would fan hatreds and stop all progress...
...Largely responsible for the brilliant style of the Met's light and elegant Così Fan Tutte was the painstaking care of its director...
...last week the new series, Life Is Worth Living (Tuesdays 8 p.m., E.S.T.), was aired over Manhattan, Chicago and Washington stations. Half an hour later, at program's end, Du Mont was swamped with 250 congratulatory calls; in a week, the program drew more than 3,000 fan letters...
...basketball fan, who found last year that he was being bilked by gangsters and crooked college boys, is a wide-eyed diehard. The fans may suspect any one of their current heroes of being on a gambler's payroll, but they are pouring back into the big-city arenas and college gyms in unprecedented numbers. Attendance figures, according to a United Press survey, are up by more than...