Word: roundup
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Their frail, unlikely-looking champion, Mrs. Velma B. Johnston. 47. is a Reno secretary. Ten years ago she was shocked to see a truckload of frightened, bleeding wild horses on their way to the slaughterhouse. She investigated the methods of roundup and was even more deeply disturbed, launched a campaign that has won her the nickname, "Wild Horse Annie...
...range from Milwaukee's Bill Carlsen squirting up a shaving-cream snowstorm to Manhattan's arch, smock-coated Tex Antoine drooping a cartoon mustache to pass the same word about rain. There have been politicians (Maryland's Senator John Marshall Butler once sponsored a nightly weather roundup as a campaign gimmick), puppets, and above all, dolls. As one of the largest sponsors of TV weather programs (36 on local stations in the East), the Atlantic Refining Co. has tried its share of stunts. But last week it took its weathermen on a junket to Florida, treated them...
Planning a big midnight vice raid last week on the dock area, Brooklyn's District Attorney Edward S. Silver called in the press for an advance briefing, with the understanding that the story would be held until the roundup began. But United Press International, which did not staff Silver's briefing, was told about the raid by a "responsible police official." who set the release date at 10 p.m. Out on the U.P.I, wire in time for 10 o'clock radio newscasts clacked word of Silver's sortie, a full two hours before the cops were...
...would be most happy to see the last roundup of about nine-tenths of your swaggering B.G.s and G.G.s alike with a subsequent mass-dumping in the nearest bottomless horse trough...
...affected by trouble because its Africans have always been the least militant, was determined to set an example of toughness for its neighbors. Prime Minister Sir Edgar Whitehead mobilized the white population, slapped a strict censorship on the press, and declared a state of emergency; in one 2 a.m. roundup, his cops grabbed 250 members of the African National Congress and stuck them in jail, incommunicado...