Word: gun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your making a composite picture of a motley crew of trigger-happy poets, callow youths, delinquent teenagers, gun molls and other Hungarian riffraff and trying to foist them off on us Americans as the "Man of the Year" is a piece of journalism that is not only unique but should stand out as the acme of effrontery...
...state capitals across the nation, gubernatorial inauguration rites last week splashed across statehouse lawns, paraded down the avenues and resounded to multiple-gun salutes as the last of the 15 new governors tried their new seats on for size. All had one problem in common: how to spend more money without raising new taxes. Some faced opposite-party legislatures, others the need for representative reapportionment. Yet for the group as a whole, gubernatorial faces were lit with the fresh glow of bipartisan good fellowship. Items...
Last week, on a lightning-swept -night in the mountains of Troodos, the reward fell due when marksmen of the Suffolk regiment shot and killed the young Sten-gun-armed terrorist...
This statistic may have been misleading. There are no zip gun wars here such as those in New York, and the crimes committed here are probably slightly less serious in nature. But the problem is simply this: a greater number of teenagers in this area seem to commit unlawful and anti-social acts than in any comparable area in the country...
...awarded to Massachusetts' able young (39) Jack Kennedy, narrowly beaten by Kefauver at Chicago last summer for the Democratic vice-presidential nomination. Aware of Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson's subtle touch in every sphere of Senate partisan activity, Columnist Fleeson saw the committee appointments as "the opening gun of an effort to put across a Johnson-Kennedy ticket at the Democratic National Convention...