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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good thing that they hadn't-not that they were all upstanding citizens or that they were all devoted to work and family. But last week, as the headlines crackled with more sensational affairs, they were free to keep the country going-to iron its shirts, milk its cows, erect its steel and keep it generally on course...
Next day at the Capitol, assemblymen charged police with torturing men arrested during the raid. Police set free 22 prisoners, of whom 16 had skull injuries or broken ribs or punctured eardrums...
...English, French, Spanish and Russian, and tried out his own version of some of the words in Ol' Man River ("We must fight to death for peace and freedom"). He also introduced to the Russians an old favorite called Scandalize My Name, and dedicated it to the "socalled free Western press." The comrades loved every minute...
...pulled clear. He had Palestinian beaten. But where was Ponder? Atkinson would never forget the way Ponder charged by him when he thought he had the Kentucky Derby won last month. As sometimes happens to slow beginners, Ponder had gotten mousetrapped down on the rail. When he worked free he put on a run that brought the crowd of 40,421 up on tiptoe. But 20 yards from the finish, Atkinson "turned his stick" and relaxed; Capot nailed the $60,900 prize by half a length. Added to his victory in the Preakness, the Belmont copper-riveted his claim...
...time we condemn the careless, incorrect, and unjust use of such words as 'Red' and 'Communist' to attack teachers and other persons who in point of fact are not Communists, but who merely have views different from those of their accusers. The whole spirit of free American education will be subverted unless teachers are free to think for themselves...