Word: reformative
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cook was pushed out into the world on his own; his ne'er-do-well father abandoned him in a deserted mine cave. Because he had a deformed right eyelid nobody wanted to adopt him. By the time Billy was 21 he had served time in both Missouri reform schools and the state penitentiary, had the words H-A-R-D L-U-C-K tattooed on the fingers of his left hand and had resolved to "live by the gun." During a murderous, 22-day rampage Billy vented his rage at society (TIME...
...learned other things. Accused of stabbing a boy in a brawl, he spent time in the Preston School of Industry (a reform school), where "I learned everything dirty there is to know about life." At Preston, he also learned about heroin. At the age of 16, soon after getting out of Preston, he took his first "pop" of heroin as casually as another youngster might take a bottle of soda. He did it because the bigger boys wouldn't take him to the beach with them unless...
...They are not just a group of educated agitators in the seacoast towns," Coleman emphasized. These men descended into the tribes and gained the confidence of the masses by articulating their grievances to colonial authorities. With the great masses behind them they pressured for reform. "They're succeeding," Coleman feels...
...Junior Fellow at Harvard has become has been a guinea pig in a current drive to reform Princeton's small, select graduate school. James A. Kritzeck, fellow in Oriental History and resident member of Dunster House, in the past two weeks has become an unnamed hero to 130 Princeton graduate students and a profanely-named pain in the neck to a host of Princeton deans...
...been able to control and even use him. But back of Lechin are Communist labor leaders, who also plan to use him. Such Marxists are spreading the word among Bolivia's Indians that land reform is next, and a restlessness has already been noted on the altiplano. If Paz shoots the nationalist wad and fails, the door to Marxist revolution may be blown wide open. And if the Reds sneak in, Bolivia will indeed be back on the map of the world's trouble spots...