Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...accusers have paused long enough to examine the real substance of the situation which they are viewing with alarm. After all, what the programs basically purported to dispense is entertainment-and free entertainment at that. We do not expect the gospel truth every time we turn on our sets...
...People Are Looking." With the immemorial necessity of "Outs" in all campaigns, the Democrats were reaching for an issue. In a time of evident prosperity, the "slow corrosion" issue turned prosperity from the world's wonder to a road to wickedness and decadence. But the issue gained strength from general uneasiness about the U.S. lag in space and missilery. Some hard-boiled Democratic pros, mindful of Adlai Stevenson's disaster when he tried to discuss the issue of national "drift" in 1956, were trying to avoid such words as "purpose" and "softness" in favor of Candidate Stuart Symington...
...backing of all three Philadelphia newspapers), did not have to take out after Stassen; Harold, 52, did it all by himself. A disappointed presidential and gubernatorial contender in Pennsylvania, the onetime Minnesota boy-wonder Governor could not find a legitimate issue, came up with an inflammatory proposal to turn back immigrants from the South, i.e., bar Negro immigration to the city, and tossed out wild charges of corruption which he failed to prove; in fact, he was scarcely able to convince anybody that he is a Philadelphian (he keeps an apartment in the city, a home at Valley Forge). Result...
...other light in the U.S., hangs astride the intersection of two heavily traveled highways: State 38 to Savannah and a combined U.S. 25 and U.S. 301, which funnels thousands of vacationers from the East and Midwest toward Florida. For traffic on U.S. 25-301 (which makes a 90° turn), the light has been known to flick from red to green and hold for only 16 seconds-just long enough to let three left-turning cars through, and get the piled-up traffic rolling. Then its timer snaps through a quick-as-the-eye amber warning to a red stop...
Unless he slams on his brakes and risks a pile-up from behind, the fourth driver in the left-turn line-and sometimes the fifth and sixth-rolls through the red toward a waiting menace of another color: one of the two blue Chevrolets manned by the town's three-man police force, whose chief occupation is to collect a $15 "bond" from each driver not willing to stick around town to be tried and fined $15 for running a light...