Word: free
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cuffe again paced the varsity with 15 points, on four baskets and seven out of seven free throws. Greg Loser poured in seven field goals for 14, and Gary Borchard had 13, including five of five foul shots. Bry Danner and Alex Hart tallied nine, followed by Marc Kolden with six, Bob Bowditch and Dave Grayer with four, and Bill Danner with three...
Saying the Federal government had imposed a special tax on so-called gambling machines (those types employing multiple coin and free game devices which build up odds), the distributor asserted that his machines are purely for amusement...
...visit to Karachi came virtually to its close Tuesday night with a speech in which Eisenhower posed the hope of improved international relations but made clear the United States' firm stand beside Pakistan in upholding free nations against any aggression...
Died. Dwight Fiske, 67, nightclub raconteur-pianist, whose bawdy songs in free verse derided and titillated cafe society in the '20s and '30s, once caused the entire Albuquerque Rotary Club to walk out on him; in Manhattan. Fiske made pretentious women his special target (Queen Anne, Miss Elaine of Boston, Gretchen Goudonofi, Malaga the Grape Girl), but he was also unkind to Marc Antony ("Cleopatra thought this was so swell / She had the Fig Newtons passed around, / Which only gave Marc Antony a case of hiccups / She misconstrued this for emotion...
Author Dunham writes movingly but without bitterness about the struggle of the children to break free of the father, and about the genteel shabbiness of lower-middle-class Negro life. A set piece on the well-calculated emotionalism of a Bible-banging preacher could hardly be done better. And the reader feels sharply Katherine's humiliation and despair when her neurotically protective father insists on being her dancing partner at parties. For violence and despair, the Dunham family wars approach Eugene O'Neill's. When the last blow has been struck-backhanded, across the mouth-and Katherine...