Word: ridden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heartwarming experience to view the photographs of the Castro executions. Latin American politicos for the most part are graft-ridden, selfish individuals, and it is a good omen to see youth and virility in the figure of a man like Castro. He is justified in being irritated with the condemnation of his "war criminal" trials. Wishy-washy humanitarians in this country (who lisp, ''My, isn't he awful? He must stop that.") must make Castro laugh...
Hoping to avoid any antilabor tag, Nixon and Secretary Mitchell (who urged the committee, boosted Nixon for chairman) are planning to look into all cost-push factors, not just rising wages. Example: in the featherbed-ridden construction industry, a sure target for investigation, the committee will delve into such nonwage matters as outmoded building codes and novel, cost-cutting house designs...
...Women. The most damaging blows against the bill were delivered by the women M.P.s. Mrs. Lena Jeger, who sits for vice-ridden Holborn and St. Pancras South, objected to the use of the word "loitering" in the bill, and stirred giggles by stating that she liked "loitering" in disreputable streets, because they were interesting ones. Slight, blue-haired Joan Vickers said coolly: "I rather wonder whether, if the House of Commons consisted of 602 women and 28 men, this bill would have come before us today...
...critical hobby-horses have been ridden to hell, and the trumpets are put away. Edmund Wilson and the Nobel Prize Committee and the Soviet Writers Union and the American newspaper editorial pages have had their say on Pasternak--and perhaps now a second reading and some thoughts are in order...
...whore. It was adapted by Novelist William Faulkner from his 1951 sequel to his 1930s shocker, Sanctuary. The story is a further look at Temple Drake (Ruth Ford), the Sanctuary college girl who landed in a Memphis brothel-and loved it. In Requiem, Temple has become a guilt-ridden, respectable wife, grappling for salvation. Boston critics agreed that it promised spiritual significance, but found it dramatically static. The Catholic Pilot's George E. Ryan commended it for "daring to grapple with the question of human guilt with no holds barred...