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...means satisfied with the progress of Phase II so far, most of them expect the record to improve in 1972. Says Walter Heller: "I think that with the Pay Board and Price Commission, as with a child or a dog, you can have a few accidents and still housebreak them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PREVIEW OF 1972: At Last, the Year of Real Recovery | 1/10/1972 | See Source »

...destroy the myth of the Negro's inferior intellect. He exhorted Nat and gradually gave him responsibilities. Styron bases Samuel Turner on John Hartwell Cocke, who was a leading spokesman for emancipation in the Virginia legislautre of the early 1880's. (Ironically, Samuel Turner's efforts to educate and "housebreak" Nat ultimately resulted in the revolt that doomed the growing movement for slave emancipation in Virginia.) Styron takes the philosophy of Cocke and puts it directly into Samuel Turner's mouth. Turner's discussion with two ministers are, word-for-word, from Cocke's personal letters...

Author: By Boisfeuillet JONES Jr., | Title: The Outrage of Benevolent Paternalism | 10/13/1967 | See Source »

Over Reno's police radio one afternoon last week came a routine alarm: "Housebreak at Mt. Rose and Forest." Within minutes, the cops were pulling up at a massive, castlelike mansion owned by La Verne Redfield, 54, an obscure stock and real-estate operator who was locally known to be wealthy and somewhat eccentric. Events quickly proved that he was all of that and then some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Record Haul | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

...note: That one's a cinch: housebreak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Press | 6/20/1944 | See Source »

...Waupun's hospital when Inmate Thomas Votcas upset his night bucket attendants decided to "housebreak" him. One bound and sat on him while another seized his ears, bumped and rubbed his face in the muck. When his face was bleeding and thoroughly besmirched they tossed him on a cot and went away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Ulcer Clinic | 4/2/1934 | See Source »

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