Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Research Project. In Courtenay, B.C., Herbert Emerson Wilson, 74, author of I Stole $16,000,000 and other works describing the futility of crime, was fined $200 for stealing $2 worth of meat from a chain store...
...news spread through the region, priests and mayors locked horns. "Politics cannot go beyond the tomb!" wrote a Red-strafing priest, Reggio Emilia's Don Wilson Pignanoli, in his paper. La Liberta. "Inquisition!" cried the party-lining Socialist paper, Avanti!. "It seems to us that a dying man should be able to choose for his tombstone the symbols he believed in while he lived, whether they are religious or political. What about the Star of David over tombs of Jews? And lamps which illuminate the headstones of free thinkers...
...brief flurry, featuring 25-foot shots from the side and corner by Lion high scorer Rudy Milkey, was able to chop the Crimson lead to six points in the opening minutes of the second half. To quell the Lion threat, Coach Floyd Wilson sent the varsity out of its 2-1-2 into a 1-3-1 zone, which is especially effective in coping with outside shooting from the sides...
...press by the varsity had cut the Cornell margin from eight points to a single point with a minute and a half left. Guard Mike Donohue, in for Bobby Repetto, who had fouled out earlier, came up with a loose ball and the varsity immediately called time out. Coach Wilson set up a play, and with a half-minute remaining, the shot missed and the Big Red captured the rebound...
Many legislators recall Charley Wilson's warning that defense appropriations must do more than simply increase to cover the cost of inflation. The $40 billion figure reputedly selected by the Administration for this year's military spending tallies uncomfortably closely with Wilson's estimate for a budget raise designed only to meet rising costs. If, of course, Eisenhower can show that the same amount of real money is being spent more wisely, he will be home safe. Such a position, however, will take a lot of knowledgeable defending, even in an election year...