Word: spelling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crime, as in other business endeavors, it is imagination, pluck and thinking in big terms that spell success. This is the American way, and it is right. But in a system of free enterprise there should always be room at the bottom for the little fellow who is neither mentally nor morally fit to compete with the big boys. And on behalf of the tin-horn punk, friends of small business look with uneasiness upon recent developments in the world of crime...
...Heady and Hall had already pleaded guilty to kidnaping six-year-old Bobby Greenlease (TIME, Nov. 16). The only issue before the jury in Kansas City, Mo. was that of prison or death. Burly U.S. Attorney Edward L. Scheufler demanded death, and started calling witnesses to spell out the crime in squalid detail. A nun's face was pale as she sat with her crucifix in her lap and told of being tricked into releasing Bobby Greenlease from school to go to his "sick mother." Who had fooled her? Sister Morand hesitated, looked around, half rose and pointed...
Malenkov left his lieutenants to spell out the damage in detail. In an orgy of breast beating, they reported: ¶ Stockings, underwear, hats and footwear-"completely inadequate." ¶ Textiles of all sorts-"insufficient . . . badly dyed, with flaws." ¶Furniture-"unsatisfactory." ¶ Women's dresses-"poor." ¶Bed linen-"production is lower than...
Everybody was talking about the weather, and its effect on sales had many a businessman worried. Over much of the U.S. last week hung a mass of unseasonably warm air that was making people forget that winter-and Christmas-are almost at hand. The latest warm spell was just a part of what has proved in many sections of the country to be one of the mildest falls on record...
Also returning to action are Bob Cowles, first string wingback, and Bill Volmer, promising sophomore fullback who might spell Culver...