Word: hasn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...constable-Jewel D. ("Stinky") Fitzpatrick: "Since my election as constable last year to fill an unexpired term, I have conducted the office exactly as I promised the people . . . It hasn't meant much money to me, but the little I have made has been a great help. As most of you know, my eyesight is such that I cannot do other work which would pay me more. If I were a strong man, with normal vision . . . I would not bother you again about voting for me. But we all must accept things as they are and do the best...
...State Department found itself last week in the position of a quarterback who hasn't noticed that his team has possession of the ball. While opportunities for progress against world Communism seethed about them, U.S. public policy spokesmen remained on the defensive, snarled in the wrangle with Syngman Rhee and the "book-burning" controversy...
This was the key syllogism of the McCarthy myth. In 1951, the Fair Dealing New York Post, in a series on McCarthy, said: "Joe McCarthy hasn't caught any spies. But he can claim credit for the political death of at least one man . . . It is clear that McCarthy defeated Tydings." This line came to be accepted far outside the originating circle of McCarthy's Fair Deal enemies. Later, liberal commentators expanded this to say that McCarthy eliminated six other Senators who opposed him. A man who can defeat seven U.S. Senators is a power, and thus McCarthy...
...There hasn't been much of this sort of newspaperman stuff around of late," said Variety last week, but now "it's a fresh script almost daily." From the sidelines, Variety was gleefully cheering the new outbreak of warfare among Syndicated Columnists Leonard Lyons, Walter Winchell and Ed Sullivan. In papers beyond Manhattan, the lines of battle were not always clear, since editors around the U.S. often cut out mysterious references to private feuds. But the columnists were not a bit discouraged...
Confused and unfair, capital punishment remains on the books in 43 states. If, however, the trend continues toward more humane treatment of all prisoners, no matter what their crime, then complete abolition of capital punishment will soon follow. That it hasn't already is due mainly to the unhappy fact that too many talk in terms of tradition and not fact...