Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Colonel Schwable's sin was committed after he was shot down over enemy territory in Korea on July 8, 1952 and taken prisoner. Helpless, cold, sick, subject to continuous brainwashing, he "confessed" (as did 35 other lower-ranking U.S. prisoners of war) in great detail to an enormous lie-to wit, that the U.S. had used germ warfare against the Chinese Reds. On March 12, 1953 Russia's Andrei Vishinsky laid his statement before the General Assembly of the United Nations...
Living in sin is bad enough without the government's encouraging it, protested the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vienna, and if the Church had to break the law to stop it-the Church would just have to break...
...Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America), onetime G.O.P. National Committee chairman (1918-21) and Harding's first Postmaster General (1921-22); of a heart ailment; in his home town, Sullivan, Ind. Resigning as Postmaster General, he accepted Hollywood's offer to let him wipe clean the sin-filled screen (at $100,000 a year), forestalled a widespread public demand for state censorship. No czar, wily Will Hays became U.S. filmdom's No. 1 booster (and whipping boy), helped draw up prim production and advertising codes, closely regulated moviemaking from story idea to exhibition. After 23 years...
...Against Sin. In Oklahoma City, Political Aspirant George V. Fried announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate and his platform: "If it's right...
...were a dresser drawer, for bits of plot. The search yields a rather weird assortment: an attractive cigar-counter girl who goes out to dinner with her customers but sees to it that she goes home alone, who is engaged to a married man, who suffers scandal without sin when another married man dies of a heart attack in her room, who inherits most of his money in his brand-new, last-minute will, who has to fight for the money in court, who wins it only to learn that it belongs to the Government in back taxes...