Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this story-which some Dickens readers consider his greatest-an impoverished old woman, Betty Higden, talks to some callers about having given a home to a poor, gangling, half-witted boy who is known only as "Sloppy." She says that Sloppy is "a beautiful reader of a newspaper. He do the police in different voices"-meaning, he changed his voice while reading police news aloud, to impersonate different characters...
...their Administrations naturally want to feed out information as they see fit, preferably in such a way as to make them look good. Last week Richard Nixon, who has always had trouble with the press, set up a system to cushion or deflect this inevitable conflict, which is inevitably known as the credibility...
Mining coal has long been the nation's most hazardous occupation. Since 1952, more than 5,000 men have been killed and 250,000 seriously injured in mining accidents. This year alone, 190 men have died in the mines. Those are only the known casualties. It is estimated that at the very least, 10% of all active miners and 20% of those retired have contracted "black lung" (pneumoconiosis), a respiratory disease caused by years of inhaling coal dust...
...report amply supports a fact long known to lawyers: witnesses of the same event seldom describe it the same way. A Grant Park clash between police and demonstrators began when half a dozen burly young men lowered the American flag and hoisted another object to the top of the pole. "Object" is used advisedly: though it was seen by hundreds of people and police and examined on film by the Walker staff, no one can yet say what it was. It has been described as a "black flag of anarchy," a "red flag" and a "Viet Cong flag." Some witnesses...
...well-known director and HUAC witness Edward Dmytryk had the sense to play his rusty vehicle somewhat tongue-in-cheek, the heaped-on cliche might have been more entertaining, particularly given the skill of the cast. But this adaptation of an ancient: novel by Louis L'Amour tends to take itself seriously; consequently all sorts of pedantic accusations can be levelled at it: there are no dramatic climaxes, the dialogue is bad, the color stinks, the film is barely entertaining--little things like that...