Word: forms
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Malden, Mass., Waldo F. Davis left a half-completed income tax form on the dining-room table, stepped into the bathroom, and with a razor fatally slashed his wrist...
...Counter-Punch. The Republicans' biggest weapon in 1950 was certain to be the same one that they had been using in some form or another since 1934: the charge of Democratic softness toward Communists. Familiar with such tactics as they were, from previous encounters in the ring, the President and his aides were plainly worried about how to counter the punches this year. The trials of Hiss, Fuchs and Coplon gave the Republicans more wallop than they had before. The headline-catching feints of Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy (see below), even if he hadn't landed...
...Boone invented the "medicine-ball Cabinet." Hoover was reluctant at first: "Nobody would want to get up and come over here and toss a medicine ball with me at 7 o'clock in the morning." But soon there were enough aspiring, perspiring Republicans to form two medicine-ball squads on the White House lawn every morning, tossing a 5-lb. ball over a 9ft. net. Among them: Mark Sullivan, Pat Hurley, Ray Lyman Wilbur, Harlan Stone...
...what the fellows in question did). Quite similarly I would refrain from doing what they did if the University had ordered their right hand lopped off, but the University could not do that for it would be barbarity. Yet the action the University did take is just a subtle form of barbarity, barbarous because it is pointlessly harsh; no one in his right mind would risk say a ten dollar fine or probation just to avoid an overdue fine...
...movie form, the drama is at its best in its treatment of Patrick's penetrating and witty dialogue, most of which occurs in outbursts of temper between Lachie, the hero, and his well-meaning hospital mates. The film-makers were wise in keeping almost all the play's lines, as well as the story, intact. Lachie, who is convincingly and warmly played by Richard Todd, enters the hospital without knowing exactly what is wrong with him. The men in his ward--Digger, Kiwi, Tommy, Yank, and Blossom, the Basuto--all know he is doomed, and do their best to make...