Word: glassing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Smut. The most significant tattle of the week came, however, straight out of journalism's dirty glass house. In Los Angeles, a parade of witnesses told a state senate investigating committee how Confidential magazine and its competitors (TIME, July 11, 1955) perform the keyhole-peeping routine that makes a heap of money out of homebreaking...
Like any other Communist-dominated parliament, Warsaw's glass-domed Sejm is a house of political zombis. Last week, meeting for the first time since the general election, the Sejm was still Communist-dominated, but this time it was Wladyslaw Gomulka's Polish Communists, and not Moscow's stooges, who were in command. The difference was startling...
...enough to win him the Cresta sledders' Carder Cup. Face low in the biting wind, his nose scant inches from the ice, Bibbia scudded into Curzon, the first turn on the twisting chute. The special, spike-toed Cresta shoes that were his only brakes were clear of the glass-hard groove as he slid along, and by the time he hit the straightaway at Junction, dropping as much as one foot for every three he covered, Bibbia was close to 70 m.p.h. He "scratched ice" as he negotiated the wicked 90° turns called Battledore and Shuttlecock, but only...
...congregate buzzed disturbing news: the first major defection from the ranks of the abstract expressionists had taken place. Longtime Abstractionist John Ferren, 51, had hung a show of his new paintings in which nearly every canvas was centered around an all-too-recognizable bottle, beaker, carafe or cognac glass. What had the artists buzzing was why Ferren had hit on the bottle, and what had hit him hard enough to make him turn his back on the abstractionists' decade of painting for paint's sake...
...Elis' defensive strategy of covering the Crimson players closely all the time resulted in several uncalled and miscalled penalties by two very-confused referees who spent a lot of their time picking up broken glass and beer cans...