Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week's self-mutilators told the investigators that they had been driven to their madness by the brutality of prison bosses. Some told of being blackjacked, beaten with sticks, thrown into solitary confinement for trivial offenses. Said one wheel-chaired prisoner, his eyes blazing with hate: "The onliest thing we ask for is that the beatings and cussing stop...
...home these nights to look at TV has only himself to blame for thin returns. It is the height of the wrong season-summer replacement time. This year the networks have surpassed even their own previous records for caution and lack of imagination. They have abandoned experimental summer shows, thrown in old fillers from previous summer seasons, and provided no new personalities to freshen up wilted offerings...
Tuckered Out. In the evening, refreshed by a rest and supper, Eisenhower set out again for the Presidencia and the big reception thrown by Panama's Arias. Milling through the brilliantly lit yellow chamber were hundreds of guests, the men in uniforms or white dinner jackets, the women resplendent in luxurious gowns and sparkling jewels. With his fellow Presidents, Ike received from his host a magnificent gold-and-white enamel necklace decorated with Indian designs, two stars and a miniature medal...
...from the train who tried to escape. Then, going systematically through the cars, they stripped the dead and wounded of all their clothes and possessions, rounded up those who could still walk, and forced them to shoulder the loot and carry it off into the jungle. One young girl, thrown between two coaches and caught by the neck, was stripped naked and left to strangle to death in the trap, unaided...
...team. The swift spread of research has caused a redrawing of the traditional picture of the lone scientist or inventor experimenting in his own workshop and, with his own flash of genius, discovering a new principle and founding a new industry. Now task forces that may number hundreds are thrown into a project; with the help of such research-developed equipment as computers, they can explore in a few weeks problems that would take an unaided worker years. In Detroit, where Henry Ford once puttered with his new car in an old stable, while his wife held the lantern, Chrysler...