Word: sticks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...south of Kashmir, where the Sikhs fought a century-long battle with invading Moguls and earned the name of being the great warriors of India. Later, fighting as professional soldiers and serving as cops for the British in odd corners of the colonial world, they made their fighting reputation stick...
...express orders of the President" -the task of safeguarding "internal order and public tranquillity." An army communiqué stated that, as "Commander in Chief of the Forces of Repression," Lucero would be in charge of all security forces, even the federal police. With Lucero holding the big stick, Perón tried to quiet the nation's alarm by speaking softly-and with unabashed cynicism. He blamed "Communist elements" for the church burnings, said that he "deplores and vigorously condemns the excesses," added: "We do not want anything but peace." Later, Perón-or Lucero-made a start...
SCULPTOR Carl Milles, 80 years old this week, is a monument to the fact that monuments can be lovely. His conservative colleagues, e.g., Paul Manship, Oronzio Maldarelli, stick to classical patterns, yet come no closer to Praxiteles than a mannequin looks like a man. More radical sculptors such as Henry Moore and Jacob Epstein, on the other hand, often go in for deliberate ugliness of a sort calculated to give ordinary park strollers the heebie jeebies. Milles' monuments are both conservative and alive, both popular and poetic...
...thus arousing public zeal for reform. MGM's Dore Schary argued that his Blackboard Jungle, condemned by Critic Mooring, did not "accelerate" delinquency but "insulated" against it. The family itself, testified Paramount's Y. Frank Freeman, is delinquency's chief hotbed, and "an old-fashioned hickory stick" is the remedy. Taken to task for the violence dished out in Warner's unreleased juvenile crime saga, Rebel Without Cause, Executive Producer Jack L. Warner sourly snapped: "The critics must be using radar. I haven't even seen the picture yet." Interrupting, a spectator challenged Warner...
...social scientist, describing and classifying. Author Whitman comes close to being a preacher. She aims to persuade, and she often does. Many of her readers will reach the happy conclusion that the future of the race lies with all the little stinkers who refuse to eat their Jello. stick their tongue out at Grandma and at fate, and tear up all behavior books within reach...