Word: inking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week in Bursa's satirical weekly Chivi, was one Turkish magazine's arch way of replying to Premier Adnan Menderes' recent clampdown on freedom of the press in Turkey (TIME, June 11). But though Chivi was only fooling, it soon found that Menderes was not. The ink was scarcely dry, when Chivi's editor was haled into court, fined 10,000 lire ($3,600) and sentenced to a year in jail for "writing with malicious and tendentious intent...
...straw-hut villages of the Gold Coast, awakening hundreds of African officials and thousands of voters, the tribal cry of darkest Africa summoning everybody to an election. All day the voters calmly queued up outside the polling huts, picked up their ballots, had their thumbs smeared with indelible ink to prevent duplicate voting, walked into the huts and dropped their ballots into boxes...
...size. The assault only bores the octopus. Secrets ends with a wild battle between the octopus and the movie's most sinister actor, a moray eel. Result: a draw, with the myopic eel's keen sense of smell fouled up by the wounded octopus' ink defenses...
...place was the unadorned, ink-stained President's office in Gettysburg College's Glatfelter Hall. Seated in black leather chairs in a semicircle were seven top Republican congressional leaders headed by Big Bill Knowland, the Senate Minority Leader, and stormy-browed Joe Martin, the G.O.P. leader of the House. Facing them from behind a wooden, felt-topped desk was Dwight Eisenhower, ruddy, bright-eyed, and looking better than he has for weeks. Ostensible purpose of the meeting: resumption of Ike's weekly conferences with the G.O.P.'s congressional leadership...
...Every Friday they paid me fifty lovely dollars, less withholding, less social security, less retirement benefits, less hospitalization, and I could do just about anything I liked with the change. My husband, Bill . . . worked a little farther down Fifth [and] except for an occasional ink stain, his hands never got dirty...