Word: types
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...right of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to deny passports to Artist Rockwell Kent and Los Angeles Psychiatrist Walter Briehl for refusing to sign non-Communist affidavits. Then four of the judges, putting chips on their shoulders for the Supreme Court to knock off with a Jencks-type ruling, went on to say that confidential Government information can remain confidential in matters of national security and foreign affairs, e.g., in passport cases...
...Russians grandly parceled out the big estates (formerly owned by Count Potocki and the Duke of Radziwill) among the local peasants. But before the peasants could quite get used to their happy new condition, the Communist Party workers moved into Morawice, urged that they merge their holdings into Soviet-type collective farms. When the .peasants hesitated, the Communists turned the economic screws, demanded larger deliverfes of corn, milk and potatoes. More in the spirit of Poland's traditional agricultural "circles" than from socialist leanings, one group of 13 families pooled their 100 acres of land and formed a collective...
...field hitter. No power; should not be played to pull. He is a good center fielder with a strong arm. A base runner. Every time he bends his left knee toward his right he is stealing." ¶On a pitcher: "Has major-league fast ball but is disturbing type on mound; looks like a mental case." ¶ On another pitcher: "Not recommended on present style. Has major-league equipment but is a Thomas Edison"-a baseball term for any player who is continually experimenting...
...over. He wanted to manage, said he, but strictly in his own way. Says Paul, "Here was a fellow who was going to run a ball club and rise and fall on his own abilities. He was going to do what he wanted even if it meant losing the type of job he always wanted...
...time to chew up only three cigars while he wheeled around the steeply banked track at Monza, Italy, and won Europe's first Indianapolis-style competition, with an average speed of 160.057 m.p.h. Indianapolis Veterans Troy Ruttman and Johnny Parsons finished second and third. The only non-Indianapolis-type cars to compete were British Jaguars, and three of them, entered by the same Scots team that swept the 24-hour Grand Prix at Le Mans, France, came in behind Parsons. So fast was the new Italian track that even the slowest car to finish shattered Sam Hanks...