Word: wording
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both were hanging around the corner of 72nd and Broadway with a bunch of Puerto Rican toughs when the word was passed that white kids in the Clinton area had been beating up Puerto Ricans in the Clinton section (when in fact both whites and Puerto Ricans had been living together there in comparative peace). It was all the excuse they needed for a rumble. The victims in the Clinton playground knew neither their attackers nor the reasons for the attack...
Responding to these familiar tones, tribal chieftains and courtiers came flocking to Hodeida to make their obeisance. The inept Prince Badr was let off with nothing worse than a rebuke for his lack of toughness, but the Yemeni radio stopped broadcasting army officers' speeches, and not a word more was heard about any reforms. And last week came reports that, true to his promise, the Imam had ordered the decapitation of one of his subjects and the amputation of the left hand and right foot of 15 others, in punishment for the murder of a high official last June...
What holds this odd and elderly crew together is the majors' firmest backbone up the middle: Veteran Catcher Sherm Lollar, 35, who can steady a shaky pitcher with a word; slick Shortstop Luis Aparicio, 25, and quick-handed Second Baseman Nellie Fox, 31, the best double-play combination in baseball; and Centerfielder Jim Landis, 25, one of the fastest fly chasers in the business. Under Manager Al Lopez' fatherly hand, the hitless-wonder White Sox, young and old alike, scamper the bases with glee, turn so cool in the clutch that they have...
...long been an unfashionable word in most analytic circles, but last week the American Psychological Association offered 7,000 members (jammed into Cincinnati for its annual convention) a soul-searching symposium entitled "The Role of the Concept of Sin in Psychotherapy.'' Upshot: the idea of sin, at least for use .in treating the sick psyche, is making a comeback...
...Action (CBS, 11-11:30 a.m.). U.N. Ambassador Lodge will pass the word on Khrushchev's visit and the approaching General Assembly sessions...