Word: gauntlet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seven Seattle psychoanalysts and psychiatrists, banded together as the Blakeley Psychiatric Group, went to Architect Kirk with a special problem. As one of them stated (with some symptoms of frustration): "Situated in the business district and open to the distractions of an apartment hotel, we run a dismal gauntlet-slamming doors, dripping faucets, a view of an alley, rattling trucks and an s.o.b. who dotes on playing the banjo. Once my attention was taken from a patient by the sight of a whisky bottle swinging on a string outside my office window." They wanted a new building custom-tailored...
...Thus confronted by crisis and a doctrine to ease it, the House Foreign Relations Committee last week opened hearings (see below) on the President's plan. Both Secretary of State Dulles and ex-Secretary of State Acheson propounded long-stored-up views and ran the gauntlet of the kind of serious, specific questions that Congress must and should ask. In a sense this was the kind of foreign-policy debate, unheard amid the oratory on the H-bombs and Joe Smiths of the 1956 campaign, that was long overdue. In an other sense, however...
Turner led the nervously smiling children through a gauntlet of epithets ("nigger-lovin' son of a bitch") to the school, left them there, headed back through town. Suddenly his way was blocked by three husky men. One grabbed him. He twisted, ran headlong into another, broke away, dodged across the street and was caught again, just a few yards from one of Clinton's two polling places. Under a storm of fists, Turner fell back against a car that was soon smeared with his blood. Then he went all the way down. Others, including two hysterical women, joined...
...other Army historians in seeking the soldiers' story, often under fire. Early in the Korean war 'he took leave of the Detroit News, to analyze the new enemy's unfamiliar techniques. Out of this experience came Marshall's best book, The River and the Gauntlet (TIME, June i, 1953), an epic description of the Eighth Army's 1950 defeat by the inrushing Chinese Communist masses...
...artist who has survived this gauntlet and is now coming into his own is Princeton-educated William Kienbusch, 42, now showing at Manhattan's Kraushaar Galleries. The surest sign of his arrival: the fact that U.S. museums now own 18 of his colorful semi-abstract paintings of the Maine coast, seven of them purchased in the last year alone...