Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...miles to Ulen, Minn., a town he had never seen. In raincoat and hat bought as a disguise, he tramped into the tiny Northwestern State Bank twice to case it, nervously returned a third time with the shotgun. He ordered Assistant Cashier Paul Ormbreck to stuff money into a paper sack, dashed out with $1,158, after trussing up Ormbreck and a teller with sash cord and gagging them with dirty rags. Richter returned to the farm, paid up $400 worth of bills, tucked away the remaining loot between the walls of a grain bin. Two days later he went...
...penalties are laid down for newsmen who publish anything that the government feels lessens the Turkish public's regard for the state, its political and financial reputation. If a paper publishes or even hints at news from any meeting closed to the public, it can be shut down for as long as three months-and nobody on its staff may write for another publication during the shutdown. Persons attacked in a paper can demand twice as much space for rebuttal. Even newsboys are forbidden to shout any news that indirectly causes "doubts" about the government...
...single newspaper had dropped 1,000,000 circulation. The loss left Britain's weekly News of the World with a circulation that still topped 7,000,000-the biggest on earth. But the size and the rate of the drop-faster than that of any other British Sunday paper-prompted one critic, Francis Williams in the weekly New Statesman & Nation, to signal: "It looks as if we are at last drawing towards the close of an era in Sunday journalism-the era of the News of the World...
What has given News of the World a fond place in every second British home is a simple formula: deadpan reporting of crime, from adultery to zooerastry, in almost all the exhaustive (and libel-proof) detail of the court transcript. "We are not a sensational paper," says the paper's creed. " 'Sensation' means making a lot out of nothing. We give facts, simply present all the news." Thus, in columns rife with rape, the paper never descends to such pseudo-glamorous tabloid cliches as "voluptuous" or "comely" to describe a victim; it simply tells the reader...
...floor wax. Odd-sized chunks of lumber are laminated into beams with the strength (and half the weight) of steel. Stumps and scraps, burned-over and diseased timber are transmuted into hardboard and rayon, edible sugars and drinkable alcohol. Even the waste chemicals that poison the air around paper mills from Maine to Minnesota are now being transformed into marketable products. On the horizon: hybrid trees that will reach marketable age faster-and yield much more lumber...