Word: pow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Uncommonly cool, several detectives drew steady beads on Clayton Clawson with their revolvers. "Don't shoot!" warned Clawson. "You'll all go to hell along with me!" Pow, pow, pow. Down went Clayton Clawson, neatly pinked in arms and legs. The bottle crashed to the floor, where it gave off an odor of household ammonia...
...pow-wow on syphilis and gonorrhea attracted 2,500 social sanitarians to Manhattan last week. Significantly they ignored morals, invoked statistics and publicity as their best weapons against the nation's venereal disease problem. As a result of open discussion, members of the American Social Hygiene Association hope that syphilitics and gonorrheics will cease to hide from doctors, will have themselves healed either privately or at free public clinics. Last week 577 communities had 827 such free clinics...
Benito Mussolini stood last week four-square on a package of exploding firecrackers. Zing!-the British Navy blanketed the Suez Canal. Zip!-Italian submarines prepared to counter with "maneuvers" across Britain's communication lines in the Mediterranean. Pow!-Ethiopia's Emperor tried to hand over the better half of his realm to Standard Oil (see p. 23). And bang! bang! bang!-Italian guns fired live shells over Italian troops advancing in war games along the Austrian frontier, killing one trooper and wounding two others as they charged up a hill with the King and Mussolini looking...
...Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation a gangster named Adam Richetti, wanted for taking part in the Kansas City Station massacre. That refusal marked the peak of jealous friction between local and Federal law enforcement agencies. Last winter Attorney General Homer Still Cummings tactfully called a peace pow-wow in Washington between the conflicting parties (TIME, Dec. 24). On the theory that the camaraderie of the classroom makes for mutual understanding and friendship, it was decided that three schools should be set up within the Department of Justice. One would undertake to familiarize new district attorneys, most...
With red-robed and full-wigged judiciary celebrities gazing solemnly down from the walls of the Langdell Hall Court Room, the three justices in the Supreme Court of the Ames Competition handed down a decision giving the Scott Club a victory over the Pow Wow Club in the first of the quarter final arguments...