Word: mauling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Krugersdorp, a mining town 20 miles from Johannesburg, rumor spread that the pass system would be extended to black women. When a native speaker excitedly called for a strike, smoldering racial resentment burst into flame. Before dawn, picket lines armed with clubs gathered at the location gate, threatening to maul any black who went to work...
What news isn't of "legitimate public interest"? No newsman could give a final answer. The New York Times is decently mum on many a scandal that the hard-eyed New York Daily News delights to mock and maul. In the current American Mercury, Chicago Lawyer Mitchell Dawson tries to fix the legal boundary between privacy and the press. Actually, says he, the right of privacy is neither ancient nor inalienable. It was formulated no longer ago than 1890, by Louis Brandeis, later Supreme Court Justice, and his law partner, Samuel D. Warren, in a magazine article prompted...
Born. To William Henry ("Bill") Maul din, 26, baby-faced Pulitzer Prize cartoonist, creator of grimy G.I.s Willie and Joe, and second wife Natalie Evans Mauldin, 24: a son; in Manhattan. Name: Andrew Edgar. Weight...
...racetrack bogey, comparative records, Hanford's hirelings should be favored. Exeter whipped the little Eli 6 to 4, while the Crimson took the measure of the prep school. But just in case the Freshmen were getting cocky. Hanford connived with Bob Maddux Monday afternoon and the Varsity proceeded to maul '51 squad...
Most Chileans believed that Alessandri hoped to be more than Senator. He would certainly claw and maul President Juan Antonio Rios' regime. For he had been elected in the face of all the opposition the Government could muster...