Word: racks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reprints of serious novels did better than ever in this two-bit market; even the Dialogues of Plato sold nearly 150,000"copies. And next year, say the reprint men, they should do considerably better. For one thing, they are dickering for a lot more rack space in the nation's supermarkets...
...lone standout on the team is Bill Rack, a 6 foot tall forward. He scored 21 points, mostly on set shots, in his team's only game this year, a 62 to 42 loss Saturday to the Coast Guard Academy...
...Navajos the mysterious word "Washin-tone" stands for all Government officialdom. "Washin-tone," they cried. "Will they not take care of it?" But impatient cops ordered, "Back on the bus. Back on the bus. Take the baby with you." One of them added: "Just put it in the baggage rack...
...baggage rack," Mary Chee repeated, weeping. "It make me feel bad all over again in my heart and in my head. But what can I do? I am a Navajo." The busload of Indians followed the police and the doctor who had performed the inquest out into the street when they left. But finally they got back into the bus. Kee Chee sat stiffly with the baby on the seat beside...
...nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself . . . The plague, the famine, the earthquake . . . were too spasmodic in their action; the tiger and crocodile were too easily satiated and not cruel enough: something more . . . destructive was needed; and that something was Man, the inventor of the rack, the stake, the gallows, the electric chair...