Word: right
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gives all the week's news in a brief, organized manner. The Digest makes its statements through its time-honored formula of editorial excerpts. TIME simply states. The Digest, in giving both sides of a question, gives little or no hint as to which side it considers to be right. TIME gives both sides, but clearly indicates which side it believes to have the stronger position...
...after he answered his office phone one night last week, he knew he had one of them on the line. The caller, without identifying himself, said: "You did me a favor once. I want to tell you a story. You know the building at Milwaukee and Cass?" Pickering did. "Right," the voice went on. "Dynamite has been planted in the building. It was planted when the Big Guy was in the office." A moment later, the line went dead...
...Clue. The news of the discovery touched off an immediate uproar. The union added another $25,000 reward (to a total of nearly $250,000) for information about the assailants of the Reuther brothers - Walter, whose right arm is still crippled by the attack on him, and Victor, education director in the U.A.W., who lost his right eye in an assassination attempt on him 13 months after Walter was shot down. Side doors to the U.A.W. headquarters were closed and locked and all visitors entering through the front door were thoroughly searched by police guards. U.S. Attorney General J. Howard...
Last week, before the New York State Public Service Commission, Grand Central and its captive audience met in combat. Spokesmen for the railroads defended their right to raise revenue with noise, said a poll by an outfit known as Fact Finders Inc. showed over 85% of the commuters approved, hauled out a psychiatrist who said the noise could harm nobody who was all right in the head. The whole storm of protest, complained that railroads, was started by "an adult comic book," i.e., The New Yorker magazine...
...poll by "Datum Diggers," Ross cracked, would show 85.5% against the noise. The broadcasts were so loud nobody could read, so bad nobody could understand them, he said. "It varies," Ross grumbled, "but it's all bad . . . I just want to be left alone. I can do all right with my own thoughts, without them thinking for me or singing lullabies." The New York Central's attorney asked Ross if his hearing was all right. "It's perfect," snapped the editor, "but I'm thinking of having an eardrum punctured...