Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...news brought a comment from another once-great Negro fighter, who had been out of the headlines for a long time. Said Harry Wills, now a Harlem landlord: "Louis is crazy." Harry Wills was thinking of past performances. Five former heavyweight champions* had tried comebacks. All had failed...
...rejected mediation in Korea "at this time"; 2) refused to bar use of atomic weapons there; 3) left it to the Security Council to decide whether U.N. forces should drive north of the 38th parallel, but recalled that U.N. had repeatedly urged unification of Korea; 4) declined comment on whether North Korean leaders should be treated as war criminals, but added: "I am quite sure they started the attack and the aggression...
...Asked to comment on Red atrocities in the Korean war, General Jonathan Wainwright, retired, hero of Bataan and veteran of three years of beatings and semi-starvation in Japanese P.W. camps, declared: "I will say unequivocally that were I commanding in Korea, I would meet the situation by giving captives the same treatment...
...Face of the Future. In Portland, Me., when Robert B . Boyle told the court he was going to be married in five days, Judge Edmund P. Mahoney suspended Boyle's $3 fine for traffic violation with the comment: "You will probably need all your spare money...
Bias. In Baltimore, Judge Herbert Franklin listened to Paul Upperman's admission that he jumped into the Patapsco River from a 40-ft. bridge to win a $5 bet, dismissed the disorderly-conduct charge with the comment: "I never had the nerve to do it myself...