Word: life
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...original Ku Klux Klan of Reconstruction days," the ad said, "was an organization of heroes [which] served to protect life and property at a time when there was a complete breakdown of decent government. That condition does not now exist ... In our opinion, we do not need an organization which operates in concealment and ... is destructive to our democratic way of life...
...total of 199 men were tried: 36 were sentenced to death by hanging; 22 got life; 103 got shorter sentences; 38 were acquitted; five committed suicide before the end of their trial...
Many of Harvey's new acquaintances were quite unfriendly. The Communist press hinted darkly that he was actually a capitalist Trojan horse which would lull Austrians into forgetting life's serious problems. The Red Army's local paper warned its readers that "Harvey is not really a harmless bit of fluff . . . The great mission of this rabbit," it wrote, "is to overcome reality-the bad truth one always wants to put away...
Onetime Shimmy Queen Gilda Gray, 47, sought $1,000,000 from Columbia Pictures for alleged damages caused by a movie named Gilda, starring "an actress named Rita Hayworth." Charged Gilda: the picture invades not only the privacy of her life, but even that of her shimmy, which the brief defined as "a rhythmical shivering and shaking of parts of the body, synchronized and performed to a personalized syncopated musical rhythm...
...chemical restraint" (sedative drugs). When a new patient arrives, often in a straitjacket, Brand has a technique: "I give them a good talking to. 'This is your home,' I tell them. 'It's up to you if you are going to have a new life.' Most of them really understand me. Not one has ever tried to strike me." But even if patients should hit an attendant, Brand says, the attendant should not strike back, but "put them in a side room and tell them to lie down...