Word: abreast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...otherwise enjoyed all benefits. Last week President Gabriel González Videla closed the gap. He signed a bill that gives salaried employees pensions equal to 100% of their pay at 60, plus a benefit that now seems all-important: an escalator clause guaranteed to keep their retirement pay abreast of the cost of living...
Late Tuesday evening, in token of their unity, more than 2,000 delegates and clerical visitors marched slowly, four abreast, bearing candles to the grotto of the Blessed Virgin on the campus. There they chanted the rosary and the litanies of the church to bring the conference to a prayerful end. Said Father Larraona, pleased, "I return to the Vatican with a warm sense of gratitude. I will have many fine things to tell the Holy Father...
...meant unlimited and universal prosperity, the Department of Labor slide rules came up with some dampening figures of their own: in 1950 the average city family earned $4,300 after taxes, an alltime record up to then, yet it had also overspent its income by $400 trying to keep abreast of rising prices and taxes...
...thin and wasted face-and often at Juan Perón, who kept long vigils at her glass-topped casket. Sixteen persons were killed, crushed and trampled by the throngs; 3,900 were in hospitals with injuries; thousands of others got first aid. In the 20-block, four-abreast queue were infants in arms and a 102-year-old woman who cried, "I've never known real pain before." To feed the multitude, the army set up 24 field kitchens, gave away sandwiches, oranges, coffee. The street outside Evita's resting place was packed with 8,340 funeral...
...experts from 19 countries last week silently swooped out over the dusty yellow airfield of Madrid's Real Aéreo Club. The two-week International Soaring contest, the biggest postwar meet, was coming to a flying finish. Each day at noon ranks of brightly colored sailplanes, eight abreast, were towed to a 1,650-ft. altitude by Spanish Air Force training planes. There, their long tow cables released, the motorless pilots sought out the thermals-rising warm air currents-on which they might ride up to soar highest, farthest or fastest...