Word: sent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...publicity stunt had been blown up into a national sensation, United Artists fought the case. In a hearing last April, Post Office Examiner William A. Duvall upheld the ban. The Goya original, he conceded, "is a masterpiece, [and] nudity is not obscene." But Duvall argued that United Artists had sent out a poor reproduction. Said he: "It is a copy of a photograph which does not accurately depict that which it purports to show ... It is simply a color picture of a nude woman...
Truckdriver Poe, his left leg caught in the cab, cried to rescuers: "Don't let me die this way! Thank God you're here! Oh my God! Thank God you're here! Help me! Save me!" With crowbars and wrenches, emergency crews got Poe free, sent him on to a hospital with four badly burned coeds. The charred bodies of Professor Sixta and nine girls were sent to the morgue...
...behalf, Nehru had already sent off an indignant letter to Peking accusing the Communists of stationing their troops inside India from Shipki Pass on the Tibetan border to the North-East Frontier Agency (see map). Last week he got back a blandly conciliatory note from Red Chinese Premier Chou En-lai saying that the two countries' differences were nothing more than "an episode in our age-old friendship." But this time Nehru refused to be mollified. Most courteous, said he of the note, but any further Chinese aggression against India "will certainly be fully resisted." Added the Hindustan Times...
This time Nkrumah added something entirely new to his already colorful manual on how to succeed in African politics. As United Party leaders got set for the election by taking the precaution of recruiting some young goons of their own, Nkrumah sent out secret orders for the Builders' Brigade to lie low. The result was a moral disaster for the U.P.: by the time election day came round last week, Ghana's uncorrupted, British-trained police had been forced to arrest 82 United Party toughs, while only seven of the C.P.P.'s boys got into trouble...
...attacks took place shortly before new moon. In desperation, Colonial Secretary John W. Sykes rushed a call to the FBI asking for help. Under U.S. laws the FBI could not help without evidence that a U.S. citizen was involved. Sykes turned to Britain's famed Scotland Yard, which sent two of its top men last week...