Word: framed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Within three-quarters of a mile of the burst, "substantial destruction of all except modern, reinforced concrete and heavy steel-frame buildings; up to 1½ miles, complete destruction of most old-style brick and frame buildings, and serious damage to modern buildings. Slight damage (plaster and glass) up to eight miles away. For at least two miles from the burst, streets blocked by rubble, and power, light and water lines knocked...
Said Harry Bridges, as he folded his lean frame into the familiar San Francisco witness chair last week: "I'm not a pacifist. I'm against aggression ... I will continue to speak out against war and if I haven't got that right, I may as well go to jail right...
...Frame's hobby began one day last year when in a police court Frame ran across a deserter who had been picked up as a vagrant. He made friends with the man, investigated his case and found that he had "trotted" in 1944 because his wife had TB. "The case opened my eyes," said Frame. "I had always held the popular misconception that deserters were no-goods, but then it occurred to me that many of them must have had what they felt were good reasons...
...intervened with his army friends on behalf of that deserter and made it a point from then on to keep his eye open for others. Frame met and talked to many of the trotters, found them desperate and sick of their fugitive lives, but terrified of stiff sentences if they surrendered. As word got around that he had been able to help some get light sentences, others began to look him up. Nowadays, as many as ten deserters a week call on Frame...
Last week Sidney Frame led his 100th black sheep back into the army fold. Many of those who had gone before had written to thank him. Said one: "Thank God, I can now put my head on a pillow at night and go to sleep...