Word: nods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...told the prison chaplain a chilling story: he had confessed only after being half-starved and beaten brutally. "Somebody in back of me kept hitting me in the back of the head so that my head would nod forward and somebody else would say, 'Well, he admits that.'" The chaplain went to Judge McDevitt, who wasn't interested. Said the judge: "He confessed." Sheeler stayed in prison. But finally a University of Pennsylvania criminal-law professor named Louis B. Schwartz entered the case. Last week, largely because of his intervention, Sheeler got a new trial. This time...
...Peking came delegations from both Lama factions, seeking the Red nod. First to arrive were gum-chewing, felt-hatted retainers of the Dalai Lama, who in December had fled his capital of Lhassa before the oncoming Chinese Red army (TIME, Jan. 8). Sitting in exile on India's border, the 16-year-old Lama had decided that it was better to rule under the Chinese Reds than not to rule...
Thus Nehru the moralist, to whose terrible truisms the only answer is a shamefaced nod...
...closest race of the day was the quarter mile run, in which Ed Grutzner of the Crimson fought off a stretch drive by Don Kelley of Holy Cross. John Packard made up 40 yards to give the Crimson mile relay team the nod over B. U.'s quartet...
...relished. While they hemmed & hawed about inviting the general to address Congress, Joe Martin hurled an ultimatum. If they didn't make up their minds by that very afternoon, Douglas MacArthur would proceed to New York and address the nation from there."* Suddenly, opposition evaporated. With a concurring nod from Harry Truman, the Democrats announced that they would be glad to join in honoring such a great general with a "joint meeting" (slightly less formal than a joint session) this week. Word went out from the White House: don't attack MacArthur personally; he's dynamite...