Word: loses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...indictment, Publisher Greenspun could thank Joe McCarthy. Three months ago, McCarthy's office sent the Greenspun column to the Post Office Department and asked whether the paper should lose its second-class mailing privileges for violating postal regulations. Later, said Post Office Solicitor Abe McGregor Goff, the Senator called and asked Goff not to press for criminal action, but to handle the case within the Post Office Department. But by that time it was too late; the case was already being pushed by U.S. Attorney Madison Graves in Nevada. (Vacationing at the Tucson home of Columnist Westbrook Pegler last...
Grace's various problems both interlock and collide: the struggle for the job helps lose her lover; the presence of the lover alienates the boy. The deepest problem of all is that fierce drive inside herself that makes bosses, husbands and lovers shy away, and makes her simultaneously bitter about a "man's world." With a final slightly pat irony, Grace gets the big job only because the man who is given first pick wants too much money...
...definite cleavage seems to be taking place between the mentality of a public, and a Congress, which was nursed on tales of Columbus, Edison, the Wright brothers, etc., and the mentality of the scientists themselves, who can hardly lose sight of the enormous preponderance of unpublicized pipe-dreams. Since all the more romantic advance of science are found in retrospect to have been impeded by forces of malice and darkness, it is perhaps not surprising to see some present-day pessimists accused as traitors or, at best, as imbeciles. One consequence may well be a trend towards blind sponsorship...
Phelps said the 24 who lost their security clearance form "a so-called leper colony." He objected to "the catch-all aspect" of this treatment, under which men lose clearance because they are suspected as risks. They are never accused, and therefore have difficulty in having their cases tried and their clearance restored...
...happens that the captain of the sultan's guard (Jeff Chandler) is a fellow Rhonda knew back in Salem, Mass. And so the harem-scare'em ends with Jeff at the head of a revolt ("Come on, slaves, what have we got to lose?") that leaves Omar wriggling in Technicolor on a meathook...