Word: hangings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hard-riding George Christopher was not about to hang up his hardware. After the fact-finding committee gave Goodie the nod, Christopher unleashed his pistols, accused Knight supporters of circulating literature of "such a low grade" as to be "vulgar and wholly un-American." It was, he said, a case of "bigotry" and "insipid intolerance." The literature included a pamphlet entitled "The ODDyssey of George Christopher," and somehow Christopher took it to be a slur on his Greek ancestry. What it did do was trace Christopher's switches in party registration-from Republican to Progressive to Democratic to Republican...
...more psychiatrists learn about mental illnesses, the less willing they become to hang neat diagnostic labels on them. This is especially true of children's mental illnesses, which are so baffling that they defy classification by the most determined nosologist. Yet the term "childhood schizophrenia" has stuck. There has been an enormous increase in this diagnosis, now "fashionable and much abused," says Dr. Hilde L. Mosse in the American Journal of Psychiatry, and it has done great harm to a lot of children...
...friend, companion, confidant. He is teacher, counselor, shopping guide. He is entertainer, public servant. He serves the housewife, the handicapped, those who toil by night. His audiences accept him as one of the family. They write him; they hang on his words. He has great responsibility. He lives...
...Under the fact-finding process, every citizen has the right to be heard before the agencies-and thousands use it. Lawyers have made an art of dragging out a case (at fees up to $500 a day) to their clients' advantage. Nonscheduled North American Airlines was able to hang on for two years, at a profit of $8,000,000 a year, after the CAB ordered it grounded because it was actually providing scheduled service...
...tube to only 5 in. The secret is a new method of guiding an electron beam to the screen more accurately than before. Theoretically, such tubes will eliminate many costly controls, cut prices of future color receivers, make a TV set flat enough (about 7 in.) to hang on a wall...