Word: labels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pure sport. People don't recognize sport unless it comes with a standard label. Some people tickle minnows; others have jeeps. Why do we do it? Every Saturday you have thousands of guys kicking themselves up a football field. In the end they're covered with mud or in a hospital. Nobody asks them why they do it. Barring other income, I have enough now so that then I get back to Montreal I'll have just enough for fare home to Australia. At the end, a football player has enough to cart himself and his bruises...
...beneath the sea and in the mountains, high-living Houston last week took a look under its garbage and found black gold. An independent driller, Trice Production Co., brought in a rich (140 bbls. daily) well from 8,000 ft. below the city dump, and gave it an appropriate label: "Houston City Dump...
...than half are mentally confused, and one-third cannot control bladder and bowels. More than a third are suffering from the aftereffects of heart attacks or strokes. Yet in half the states studied, one-sixth of the inmates had not seen a doctor in six months. ¶ Despite the label "proprietary," these homes are supported largely from public funds paid out of welfare coffers. In Connecticut a private patient pays an average of $230 a month, but public authorities will pay only $160. California ponies up $120 for welfare cases, against a private charge of $210; Georgia gets by with...
...doubts. And as Harriman outlined the problem, it did not appear to be just a Democrat v. Republican issue. He was, he said, "the only fellow in the position to be a candidate for President" who was never "soft on Communism. No one can pin the soft-on-Communism label on me." Did Harriman mean to imply that he was less vulnerable than Adlai Stevenson or Estes Kefauver? "That smear, if it starts," he retorted heatedly to a National Press club luncheon, "is a lie and untrue. In no sense was [the statement] a disparagement of these two fine Democrats...
...official program of the Republican National Convention was on the presses. "Peace, Progress, Prosperity" read the slogan on the cover; "Unity" read the label near the top. The illustration: a photograph that at first glance looked like unity, all right. It was a famed sculpture by France's Auguste (The Thinker) Rodin (1840-1917), showing three muscular men, their lowered heads together, their arms and bodies touching one another with fluid force. They were also nude...