Word: rods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Governor Sir John Harding declared a state of emergency in Cyprus last month, he decreed jail sentences for demonstrating, death for carrying firearms and "up to twelve strokes with cane, birch or rod" for rioting by school: boys. But still the agitation for enosis (union) with Greece continued. Last week four British Tommies were shot down by Sten gunfire from a passing car; a grenade tossed into an army truck killed its driver...
...Crimson sextet could gain the edge, however, if Providence's strong first line is again broken up because Rod German, its high-scoring center, has a thigh injury...
Best Dramatic Show: Rod Serling's Patterns...
...Doud home to say hello to Mamie's mother. With his painting easel, he sat out in the bright-lit sundeck foyer in a straightback chair, copying a recent LIFE photograph of his grandson, David, which showed the boy in a black ten-gallon hat with a fishing rod over his shoulder...
...usual, reform made itself most felt among the helpless-notably criminals, lunatics and children. There were phrenological theories on how to run jails, cure madmen and bring up kids. U.S. schoolteachers testified that they no longer needed the rod because they conducted their classes on phrenological lines. Soon half the adolescents in the U.S. were guiltily fingering their Bump of Amativeness. Good men in a hundred small towns were prospecting their scalps for favorable bumps, or stealthily sliding over the depressions where the good green hills of spirituality should have been...