Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Winding Sheet. To make Joseph confess, the Gouws tied him to a tractor and beat him with a hose pipe. Then they dragged him into a tobacco shed, where watching Negroes counted 66 more lashes with the hose. "They kept lifting Joseph up and hitting him," said one witness afterwards. But Joseph persisted in his denial, so the Gouws tossed him into the truck again and drove off to consult their uncle, 69-year-old Pieter van Schalkwyk. While the family took coffee together, Joseph was left in the sun, tied to the truck with a thong around his neck...
...whistle.) It was a noisy courtship-conducted, apparently to the mutual enjoyment of both parties, amidst coveys of newsmen and crushing hordes of fans in Manhattan. They were married on Author Louis Bromfield's farm in Ohio in May 1945. "It was a big mess." says Betty. "Bogie shed tears all through the ceremony. He cries at weddings. He's very cute about it. It was fun. It was exciting. Bogie's a wonderful husband...
Last week, after a six-month study of 31 jet aces and 62 of their less successful contemporaries, the Air Force's Psychologist E. Paul Torrance shed some light on the top MIG killers. The jet ace's outstanding characteristics: aggressiveness, self-confidence, an almost fanatic devotion to flying. The typical ace was born into a large family, had to cooperate and vie for parental attention with his brothers & sisters, was seldom coddled. As a youngster he played hookey from school or drove cars just to see if it could be done, strove to win at such rough...
...purpose of the series is to try to shed some factual light on one of the great controversies in American education--the small college-big university question. For years this debate has raged, with the proponents of the small college maintaining the merits of intimate student-faculty relations and informality against the eminent faculty, research facilities and diversity of the university...
...also yielded to the 30 degree heat. During the political debate, the officers too began to shed their clothes...