Word: throughout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defendants. Willion Collinswort, 23; Patrick Scarborough, 20; David Ervin Beagles, 18, and Ollie Stoutamire, 16, made up a sorry lot of delinquents, victims as well as products of their squalid environments. Collinsworth. an illiterate telephone lineman, is a chronic drunk, son of a sadist who beat him habitually throughout his childhood. Scarborough, an Air Force enlisted man, is an orphan whose mother was shot to death in a barroom brawl when he was seven and whose father committed suicide the same year. Stoutamire quit school after the eighth grade, has had a brush with juvenile authorities. Beagles is a high...
...talk throughout the night...
...spectacular improvement in U.S. employment brought jaw-cracking grins from the economists at the U.S. Department of Labor. For the month of May, unemployment dropped 238,000 to a total of 3,389,000 throughout the U.S. The improvement cut the overall percentage of jobless to 4.9% of the labor force for the first time since the early stages of the recession. Just as impressive, employment jumped 1,000,000 to 66 million, new alltime high for the month...
...last week, the most nagging worry of the recovery was the relatively slow drop in the rolls of the unemployed. After the jobless held at about 7% of the labor force through most of the recession, the figures dipped below 6% in November, then stayed between 5% and 6% throughout the winter, causing the experts to wonder if they might not hover there indefinitely. The May breakthrough proved the experts happily wrong, particularly since the best news came from the manufacturing industries hardest hit by recession. At a time when factory employment normally stabilizes as producers start slowing down...
...Tiger wants something bigger than this life has to give him. When he deliberately burns his books. Author Selvon makes his points: knowledge cannot be forced; the hero's road runs briefly day-to-day and not in one glorious sweep to the stars. Throughout, Author Selvon's Trinidad is vivid beyond any travel writer's account- drenched in sunlight, touching in its poverty, and flashingly alive in the near-calypso lingo of its hopeful, gossiping peasants...