Word: sicklies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ailing Los Angeles News three months ago, William A. Townes, 43, went to work under the impression that he had a free hand. He operated on its makeup, pepped up its editorials, and tried to breathe more life into the pallid News. But Editor Townes, who had doctored other sick papers to success (TIME, Feb. 16, 1948), soon found his patient rebelling. Sacred cows got in the way of many editorial decisions, and Townes found that some stories, e.g., the banning of the movie Limelight, were not considered news. Last week, after 72 days in the editor's chair...
...your proposal," so often in such a short time. After several days of rapid progress last week, Rear Admiral John C. Daniel, chief of the U.N. liaison group, came triumphantly out of the wooden, Red-built conference house at Panmunjom, announcing that the U.N.-Communist agreement on exchange of sick & wounded prisoners had been signed. Photographers persuaded the admiral to perform his exit a second time, waving the agreement in his hand...
Even before the Communists agreed to exchange sick and wounded prisoners, one shrewd Chinese commander near Panmunjom hastened to prove himself a friend of the new Red "humanitarian" line. Early one foggy morning last week, U.S. marines on a western-front outpost heard a surprising announcement over an enemy loudspeaker: "Attention all officers and men. We have one of your wounded. Send two men as soon as possible . . . We will allow you to come as far as the defilade area without firing...
...take advantage of the patriotic euphoria of the coronation to call a "snap general election." But the P. M. himself is said to feel that such exploitation of the coronation would boomerang. Having gone through three general elections in eight years, he is convinced that "the country is sick of elections" and wants a rest from partisan strife. This is why the Churchill government has taken pains to press its denationalization and decontrol programs with calculated gentleness...
...sports contests is the "It never rains, it pours" philosophy. For example, several years ago we had a really great tennis team. "Inside of one week," says Barnaby, "we lost six of the top nine players." A broken leg, a broken back, a broken neck, the flu, and sick relatives were among the afflictions suffered...