Word: pointedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Point of View. In Santa Monica, Calif., when Richard F. Mossman was charged with drunkenness by a witness who swore that both Mossman's eyes had been bloodshot, the accused showed the jury that his right eye was made of glass, promptly won an acquittal...
...defendants had taught their followers to prepare for the coming of some crisis-a depression, perhaps a war with Russia. At that point the revolutionists would spring into action. Through strikes and sabotage, they would paralyze the industrial machine, bring about the violent overthrow of the Government, establish the dictatorship of the proletariat. Orders to follow such a course had come directly from Moscow, which maintained rigid discipline over its U.S. followers. The methods of the U.S.C.P. embraced lying, false swearing, secrecy (all characteristics of a conspiracy), and the whipping of aggrieved minorities into active resentment...
Just before the Tories convened, Lord Beaverbrook, most powerful of Tory publishers, splashed across his front pages his own ten-point program for Britain's salvation. His main points: ¶ All-out effort for empire self-sufficiency ("The empire comes first . . . Without the empire not only is there no hope for the future-there is no future"). ¶ A minimum wage of ?6 ($16.80) for British workers, but at the same time "no limitation on dividends. Pioneers should be encouraged to go into . . . new industries...
From the government's point of view, there was a hitch. It was impossible without special parliamentary legislation, said the Ministry of Supply, to ban one kind of slot machine without banning them all. A machine built to sell candy bars could just as easily sell contraceptives provided they were wrapped in the same package. Besides, said the ministry, slot machines of all types were an important item in Britain's export program...
...Yardlings, who had lost their first two games to Andover and Holy Cross, scored their first touchdown in the second period on a short buck by Art Pappas. They missed the extra point, but soon roared back to get seven more points on a pass from Hardy Cox to end Dick Lionette, and an extra-point kick by Bill Kierstead...