Word: photographic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...check the alarming growth of absenteeism among Czech factory hands, the newspaper Rude Pravo reported last week, the Czechoslovakian Red government has instituted a system of "camera control." Workers have been told to photograph fellow employees coming to work late or leaving early, and all "allegedly sick" co-workers who are found "in their gardens or working elsewhere." The pictures will be posted on factory bulletin boards...
...This will no doubt prove my identity," he said. He handed Georgescu a photograph of his sons. On the back was written, "Dear Daddy, please do all you can to help us." It was signed, "Costa and Peter." Georgescu left the room for a moment "to disguise my emotion." But when he returned, he said, firmly, "I want to know exactly...
...expression of their gratitude for his long years of service, his students in the Divinity School have commissioned a portrait of Sperry. A photograph of him will be presented by his friends and colleagues and will be hung in the preacher's room of Memorial Church. A gilded edition of the Revised Bible, in whose writing Sperry played a large part, will be placed in the collection of holy writings in the Chapel...
...sleepless nights of watching over his wife, Joe got out his six-gun, strode into Maria's kitchen, "shot her, one-two-three-four-five-." Last week, on trial for murder, Joe pleaded that he did not go to Guadalupe to kill Maria but to get back a photograph of his wife. He fired only after she refused him and reached for her shotgun. But his defense was based in large part on the implication that he too was a victim of a belief in witchcraft...
...photography, Flint (Mich.) Journal Photographer William M. Gallagher, who got a memorable photograph out of a routine assignment with his campaign picture of Presidential Candidate Adlai Stevenson which showed a hole in his shoe...