Word: thrashing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Berry L. Cannon, 33, and two companions were sent below to make repairs. They descended to the 610-ft. level in a pressurized personnel transfer capsule (PTC) and were opening a hatch to enter Sealab when Navy officers watching a TV monitor on the surface saw Cannon begin to thrash about. "I saw his body jackknifing, making a rapid motion," says Captain George Bond, Sealab's chief medical officer. "Any time you see rapid motion in a diver, you know he's in trouble." Cannon died before he could be brought to the surface...
Lethal Right. Raised on a ranch in Pottawatomie County, Kans. Willard migrated to Oklahoma, where he broke horses and ran a frontier freight-wagon service, Marveling at the way Big Jess tossed around 500-lb. bales of cotton, his friends told him that he was just the man to thrash Jack Johnson good and proper. Like many Americans, they considered it a national disgrace that Johnson, who eventually married three white women and romanced countless others, was allowed to reign as champion.* Willard who had never seen a boxing match sold his business and at 29 went into the ring...
...understanding between Houston's police and Negroes. The six-week programs have been going on since last September. On each of six consecutive Fri days, as many as 200 policemen, divided into groups of 12 to 15, meet with equal numbers of citizens-both black and white-to thrash out differences. The fourth batch is now attending the three-hour sessions, each of which is guided by a trained psychologist...
...PRICE is another leaf from Arthur Miller's family album, bound with concern for matters of responsibility and irresponsibility. Pat Hingle and Arthur Kennedy play two brothers who, after 16 years, meet in the attic of their former house to thrash out the price to be paid for old possessions and fresh guilts...
...PRICE is another leaf from Arthur Miller's family album bound with concern for matters of responsibility and irresponsibility. Pat Hingle and Arthur Kennedy play two brothers who, after 16 years, meet in the attic of their former house to thrash out the price to be paid for old possessions and ever fresh guilts and frustrations...