Word: filed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such times Belisle, like other field workers, tries to concentrate on the pain the child has endured and is likely to endure again if it does not escape from home. The screening room file cabinets are filled with case histories: babies with cigarette burns on their tongues; small children whose backs have been scarred with human bite marks; innumerable children with the classic child-abuse injury: the telltale "spiral fracture," a twisting, lightning-shaped bone break caused by extreme twisting of a spindly arm. But having invoked the memory of such things. Belisle gets a measure of relief by correcting...
...G.O.P. leaders in Michigan, fearing they would lose the seat to a Democrat, urged Griffin to reconsider. So too did rank-and-file Republicans, who sent him thousands of cards and letters. Suddenly, last February, the Senator changed his mind and declared that he would seek a third term in the November election...
...Boston hotels or restaurants, the Boston union officials did not want to strain the resources of the union in a Harvard strike. But this reluctance of the Boston officials, and their subsequent attempts to convince the Harvard workers not to strike at the meeting, left the Harvard rank and file with little choice but to capitulate to Harvard's demands. The rank and file are justly angry with their leadership's refusal to back up their demands...
...beat or the obit desk. Not at all. "I take every letter personally," sighs Manhattan's Fidler. "I can't go to lunch, I can't go home, I can't sleep until I've solved it." Nashville's Appleton has a fat file marked BIG K (for kooks) groaning with the barely legible, highly paranoid ramblings of the city's loneliest losers; he answers their missives with phone calls in hopes that they can better explain themselves viva voce. Says he: "I'm always afraid that somewhere in there...
...aunts and uncles in Orange County, California, or some other reactionary region. As it is, the book is prominently displayed in reputable bookstores and reviewed in reputable publications. That means others--including other reviewers--are forced to take account of they could otherwise throw in the circular file with the rest of the crank mail...