Word: woodshedding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When I arrived in Marks a few days after the trial, Mrs. Collins dragged me along to a house around the corner, a dull grey frame woodshed. The one-room shed had been built by Presley Franklin's father and a few other people caught up in the "Movement," the...
Ad-Lib Arbitration. It was by any definition an inflationary boost. Johnson's woodshed rationale was that its effect would somehow be neutralized by the airlines' hefty 1966 profits, which he preferred to call "productivity." The President explained on TV: "Unit labor costs in the air-transportation industry...
But Rolvaag was embittered. "I got taken to the woodshed by my lieutenant governor," he said. And despite Humphrey's urgings of unity, the Governor would not rule out challenging Keith in the party primary in September. Any further D.F.L. feuding, of course, could only benefit Minnesota's...
No Separation. As for the Profumo case, though an official inquiry into its security aspects is nearly complete, the government has given little assurance that it will lessen what the Economist recently called "the already cumbrous weight of suspicion that there is something nasty in the woodshed." Last week the...
Among other hints of nastiness in the woodshed, or the police station, Britons were perturbed by recent charges that Scotland Yard had browbeaten a convicted prostitute into testifying against Ward (she later recanted), and by speculation that police deliberately failed to produce a defense witness at the trial of "Lucky...