Word: racks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conviction, or, more likely than not, passivity. Belief in democracy is strong, yes, but inarticulate. We are being bankrupted by the wild spenders promoting the frills and flub-dubbery of new wrinkles in education. Only we, the people, can stop this. Put the promoting type of educator to the rack and screw...
...discovered that the chain binding the black Raleigh bike to a rack in Moors Hall basement had been sawed through. The janitor informed her that the bike had been confiscated, along with several other unclaimed ones stored in the basement and had been auctioned off in Cabot Hall November...
...youngsters got their first boost in the waiting room. Thanks to the Variety Club of New England, one of the "angels" financing the new building, there was a layout of electric trains, a television set, a miniature merry-go-round, and a rack of dolls. If a little girl got attached to a doll, she could keep it; there were more where it came from. Corridor walls were covered with such Disney favorites as Pinocchio and Snow White...
...Supreme Court of the United States reversed the California courts and made Antonio Rochin a free man. Wrote Justice Felix Frankfurter for the majority of the court: ". . . The proceedings by which this conviction was obtained do more than offend some fastidious squeamishness ... They are methods too close to the rack and the screw to permit of constitutional differentiation." Frankfurter based his decision on the 14th Amendment, which forbids a state to interfere with a person's life or liberty "without due process...
That, as it happened, was just what little "Ag" had in mind. Unfortunately, she was constructed more on the lines of a young duck than a young swallow, but hour after hour she exercised in her mother's bathroom, gripping the towel rack for her barre, to pull herself into the classic shape...