Word: punks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Your cutting "creeping censorship" story [TIME, May 5] fails to point out that reporters, often anxious to stay "on the good side" of some punk politician . . . have perhaps unwittingly and unethically abetted the new trend. Additionally, some publishers whet their pet ax on the "cant' we kill that story" these. Perhaps ours is the oldest profession after...
...asked to sit, experimentally, in the electric chair, did so, and said: "It made my flesh crawl." He was introduced to one Carl De Wolf, soon to be electrocuted for shooting a Tulsa detective. De Wolf rose to the occasion too, and said: "I was just a punk like you when I first got into trouble...
After that, the swaggering little punk degrades Virginia, pushes her from bed to worse. He beats her brutally over trifles, sponges off her ("I'll take everything you've got"), blackmails a woman friend who tries to help...
...night was Henry Armstrong v. Fritzie Zivic. While the 19-year-old kid watched wide-eyed, Zivic gave the great Henry Armstrong-the worst drubbing of his career. Robinson, so the story goes, resolved revenge then & there. A year later, further infuriated when Zivic referred to him as "a punk amateur kid," Robinson got his chance. Though his detractors still claimed that Robinson was a weak counterpuncher, the skinny (139 Ibs.) kid, just half an inch under 6 ft., outgunned ex-Welterweight Champion Zivic at his own game: counterpunching. Sugar...
Half a century later, a new advertising technique gave the sexagenarian business an added boost. The ominous crow was retired; the slogan became "Wake up your liver bile!" Jingles urged readers and radio listeners: "When you feel sour and sunk, and the world looks punk . . . Take a Carter's Little Liver Pill." Carter's went on to claim that the increased liver bile would enable the pill-taker to overeat and overindulge in "good times" without morning-after regrets, to wake up "clear-eyed and steady-nerved," "feeling just wonderful," and "alert and ready for work." Copywriters combed...