Word: friendless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bedside table at a rundown Cleveland rooming house, a friendless old woman scrawled a note just before she died: "The only thing I own is my dog. Please take it to the Press. Ask them to find a home for it. I know the home they find will be a good one." Such confidence in the Cleveland Press (circ. 310,858) is neither misplaced nor unusual. Seven out of every ten people in the Cleveland area, boasts the Press, read the paper. Politicians curry its favor, mothers raise children from booklets on child care supplied by the Press, teen-agers...
...attorney. Warden Lawes wrote: "In the twelve years of my wardenship, I have escorted 150 men and one woman to the death chamber and the electric chair. . . They came from all kinds of homes and environments. In one respect, they were all alike. All were poor, and most were friendless. To what end or purpose were these victims sent to their premature deaths?" Surveys of executions in the South show that five Negroes offset every white condemned to death...
...Alone, friendless and frightened, the old lady would not listen to reason. Only an operation could save her, the doctor had said, but she wanted no operation. Let her die. No, there was no family to call-no one at all, except "the Alliance." Willing to try anything, the doctor called the Educational Alliance on Jefferson Street in Manhattan's lower East Side...
Turkey emerged from World War II lonely and friendless. It had played the hard-to-get neutral, declaring war on Nazi Germany only at the last moment, in February 1945, in time to qualify for U.N. membership. It was cut off from the Balkans and the Arab world too, and isolated from Islam. No one loved the Turks. The Turks loved no one. Then the Moskofs (as the Turks call the Russians) started growling. Turkey's stout defiance of Soviet demands for joint control of the Dardanelles taught the U.S. and the Western world, in 1946 still under...
...notion that the typical alcoholic is an elderly bum or a friendless misfit dates from the days when drunks were observed mostly in police courts and state hospitals. Dr. Robert Straus and Dr. Selden D. Bacon, sociologists at the Yale Center of Alcoholic Studies, decided to get some up-to-date information by sifting through the case histories of 2,023 alcoholics treated at the Yale Plan Clinic and others like it. Their findings: the average clinic patient is 41, married and living with his family, has held a job involving skill or responsibility for three years or more...