Word: jaw
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Electric shock treatments have apparently been successful in treating some forms of insanity, but doctors are beginning to suspect that the "cure" may be worse than the disease. The treatment, a jolting shot of high-powered current through the brain, causes convulsions that may dislocate the patient's jaw, break his bones, or even kill...
...Ottawa has pressured nearly 4,000 of them into moving back to Japan, has discreetly resettled most of the others.*By last week, the Government was down to the last damned spot-a stubborn little band of 59 in a camp just south of Moose Jaw, Sask. The spot would not come...
...they "would rather die" than leave the camp and take the jobs Ottawa had dug up for them, the Government cut off the camp's food supply. This move did not budge the Japanese; they simply took their earnings (from camp work) and bought their meals in Moose Jaw. The next logical step seemed to be to close the camp and set the holdouts adrift. The trouble was that Canada was getting an uneasy conscience and a close-out might set off a political ruckus...
Already Moose Jaw's ambitious. and wealthy young M.P., Ross Thatcher, was capitalizing noisily on the manifest violation of civil rights. He had protested to Prime Minister Mackenzie King against the attempt to "starve the Japs out of the camp," and had followed with a ringing speech: "Let these Canadians be treated as Canadians by Canadians. Let the Government have the courage to admit a wrong and right...
...stock neurosis: Shall I go on prostituting my talent for dough or shall I bravely become a Serious Writer? A nice girl, Beth, thinks Eddie should be brave, but his boss, Nick Latka, has a big thing for him to build up-a giant Argentine with a glass jaw who can be babied and ballyhooed into a heavyweight contender. This game appeals to Eddie and so does his promised cut of the proceeds, so he takes leave of Beth and swings off to the West Coast with the traveling menagerie for which he has been appointed barker. El Toro Molina...