Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...makes Communist activities a possible basis for criminal charges, reasoned the court. Therefore, a witness asked to testify about such activities may justifiably enfold himself in the Fifth Amendment, which provides that no one in a criminal case is required to be a witness against himself. As precedent, Justice Black recalled Chief Justice John Marshall's famed ruling in 1807 reaffirming this guarantee of the Fifth Amendment in the Aaron Burr treason trial. From Mr. Burr to Mrs. Blau the constitutional line was clear...
...dockside went on apace. There was no panic, no disorder. But the tempo of the operation stepped up sharply. At the docks themselves, U.S., Norwegian and Japanese merchant ships took on load after load of trucks, tanks, gasoline, rations, dismantled aircraft, jeeps, tents and kitchen stoves. The black, mud-choked roads within the dock area were jammed bumper to bumper with mud-spattered supply trains grinding and slithering down to the ships. The supply convoys passed acres of gasoline drums, quarter-mile-long warehouses piled high with C-rations, soap, lard, coffee and fruit juices. G.I. and Korean stevedores...
When Beech Aircraft's postwar business fell so low in 1946 and '47 that the company went into the red, Olive Anne mapped out the cost-trimming program that got it back in the black. Last week, with a backlog of more than $50 million and major subcontracts from Boeing, Consolidated and Lockheed, it looked as though Olive Anne's first year at the controls might well be a record-breaking one for Beech Aircraft...
Married. Shirley Temple, 22, cinemoppet star of the '30s; and Charles Black, 31, California TV official, son of a public-utility mogul; she for the second time; in Del Monte, Calif...
Unfinished as it is, Lucien Leuwen is a true coin of Stendhal's genius; only the edges want milling. It ranks almost with The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma, the great novels which Stendhal wrote before & after it; and it marks the mid-point in his development from a powerful psychologist who couldn't help laughing at the people he created, to a deadly satirist who couldn't stop creating the people he laughed...