Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Amid the trite and untrue that shed a honky-tonk glare from the nation's TV sets come moments that pierce reality and live up to television's magic gift for thrusting millions of spectators at once into the lap of history in the making. As television moved this week into its second decade, chances were that some of the best of such moments in the new season would come from a dark, high-domed man with a hangdog look, an apocalyptic voice and a cachet as plain as his inevitable cigarette. His name: Edward R. (for Roscoe...
...Cure. Near Olney, Ill., irritated by wasps that buzzed around the barn, Farm Hand Harold Weber decided to smoke them out, burned more than 5,000 bales of hay, 2,000 bushels of barley, 200 loads of manure, a utility shed, a garage, three drums of gasoline and the barn...
...from parking in a no-parking zone through vagrancy to incitement to riot. "I consider you guilty of the lowest possible degree of vagrancy," said Judge Doyle. "You came into this town to cause racial disorder. You and others like you are responsible for any blood that may be shed. I only wish we had enough policemen to take you by the seat of your britches and the nape of your neck and throw you outside the city limits." At week's end Kasper, in the county jail on charges of incitement to riot, and unable to raise...
...sweltering wood-and-asbestos shed in the backyard of the building where Indonesia had proclaimed its independence twelve years ago, some 150 leaders of the chaotic and divided young republic met last week to see if they could keep their independence and still remain a nation. Said Prime Minister Djuanda: "The central government does not wish to dictate anything. Let's not find faults. Let's discuss our problems with open hearts, and a brotherly manner...
Colonel in Disguise. Despite Djuanda's fervent appeal for openhearted and brotherly discussion at last week's conference, the people in the shed eyed one another mistrustfully throughout. Before the conference began, Colonel Sumual carefully disguised himself as a Chinese merchant and made a secret trip from Celebes to Sumatra to confer with his fellow rebel colonels. They decided to attend the conference only if Premier Djuanda and Mohammed Hatta would guarantee their personal safety. This the two statesmen agreed...