Word: franked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After eight white witnesses had hedged, Chairman Hannah called a recess, turned the record over to the Justice Department. In a studied display of overnight speed, Federal Judge Frank M. Johnson Jr. next day ordered six of the most recalcitrant to testify and produce records at another hearing this week. Alabama-born-and-bred Judge Johnson's threat if they did not: jail terms for contempt of court...
...offering to give away leases, Turner stimulated others to drill. Last winter, off in the backwoods, two more wells came in. In April the Frank Beams farm on the main Louisville road, which Turner had leased and subleased, came in flowing thick black oil-and the boom was on. Farmer Ellis Hood, 45, who barely scratched out $2,400 a year from his 85 hilly acres, now rakes in $325 a day; ex-Marine Early Vaughn Dulworth, 36, who paid $200 for a part interest in the Beam lease, now gets back $2,000 a month (his mother...
...David S. Chapin of Dunster House and Buffalo, N.Y., and David M. Balabanian, of Kirkland House and Cashmere, Wash. Sophomores who have won seats are Abraham F. Lewenthal of Lowell House and Leominster, who was unopposed; Albert L. Jacobs, Jr. of Dunster House and New York City; and Barnett Frank of Kirkland House and Bayonne, N.J., who was also unopposed...
Conformity, as Lattimore means it, spans all ranges of human endeavor: economic, social, political, and religious. However, "the fear of being frank and outspoken is much greater among politicians; they have the feeling of a real need for conformity." And it is the political need to conform which Lattimore sees as the real threat to society. It is this need, he points out, which leads to "a paternalistic authoritarian attitude" on the part of a government which "rests on the assumption that a man will believe in communism if he is exposed to it. This seems to me an appalling...
...exposing slip and such-like): "Why can't we just be grown-up about the whole thing. Really, the way you men seductively mention virginity to a girl not your mistress, and then wink about what happened when Cynthia slept here last night is silly. We should all be frank about...