Word: slayer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...front end (concessions, games of chance) got a big play too. A muscular cowpoke swung a big wooden mallet and sent a weight soaring up a wire to clang a gong. He strutted off like a dragon slayer. "The guy can rig that bell any way he wants to," said an operator. "He twists a knob, and you'll never hit the bell; he twists it back, and you'll hit it every time." Over where the flatties (dishonest concessionaires) worked the barrel ball game, the toss of a ball into a barrel won a prize. But someone...
...latest phase of an experiment involving the injection of cancer cells into healthy bodies (TIME, Feb. 25, 1957), Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute again sought volunteers at the Ohio Penitentiary, found 52 takers, many of them urged on by Cleveland Osteopath and Convicted Wife-Slayer Samuel Sheppard, who offered his own arm for the test, was accepted...
...town, and this album tells a lot about it. The selections-Carnival, Mojo Woman, Crepuscular Air-have an engaging funky, blues-flavored quality, abetted by some light and witty Allison solo flights on the piano. Among the most successful is a swinging, wryly humorous ballad about a misunderstood wife-slayer at "the Parchman Farm" who passes his time "puttin' that cotton in a 'leven foot sack/With a 12-gauge shotgun at [his] back...
...year newspaper veteran whose father and grandfather were peace officers in Arizona territory, Reddick normally has no use for heroics. Why did he disarm the wife slayer? "Well," he explained, "I began to think, hell, when a man fires a gun into your face and it doesn't go off, it's just not your time...
...Boston, one of the most publicized cases that grew out of Joe McCarthy's career as wild-swinging slayer of subversive dragons came to an end. Because of insufficient evidence, the Government announced that it was dropping the prosecution of Harvard Physicist Wendell Furry, charged with contempt for refusing to answer the Senator's questions. ¶Gift of the week: from John D. Rockefeller Jr., $1,000,000 to Dartmouth College for Dartmouth's new social and creative arts center (TIME, Feb. 20). ¶Resignation of the week: Samuel Brownell, brother of U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell...