Word: pricks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Miami Herald's mysterious visitor, who called herself Evelyn Hill, produced a news tip that made city-room ears prick up: the Havana whereabouts of Austin Frank Young, 38, Miami-based adventurer who, sentenced to 30 years for conspiring against the Fidel Castro regime, had broken out of a Cuban jail in Pinar del Rio province less than 24 hours earlier...
Bubble Trouble. Whom does Schindler suspect? He named no names, but he fingered the man who ordered the killing as "the real power in the Bahamas." What was the motive? Said Schindler: Sir Harry, who dug his fortune out of an eastern Ontario gold mine, was about to prick the then-swelling Bahamas bubble (TIME, April 20) by liquidating his real-estate holdings and moving to South America...
...guest of Winthrop House by the grace of a Ford Foundation donation, Chester Bowles brought to many undergratuates an optimism and intelligence uncommon today among America's spokesmen. But Bowles would undoubtedly be the first to prick this balloon we have inflated in his honor, for his is a quiet humility which understands that being human means being imperfect...
...steady, indiscriminate choler, spraying such targets as physicians ("smooth, lying inefficiency") and dogs ("Man's Best Friend is a fake and a fraud"). A seething Germanophobe, he took the occasion of West German President Theodor Heuss's recent cool reception in England (TIME, Nov. 3) to prick the Germans with his needle quill: "All I want of them is to wait for a generation to pass before they come sidling up to us saying it was all just a big mistake...
First man to prick the bubble of the Soviet claims was George W. A. Dick of Queen's University, Belfast: he charged that the Russian "vaccine" was actually a preparation perilously akin to live rabies virus; as a treatment, it did no good and was potentially dangerous...