Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what makes you think only mothers demand Kangaroo Keeshan? I am a male adult, 32, and have been more "broken up" over this program than I was with Flash Gordon serials back...
...Jell-O ("If the illustrations have changed through the years from molded gelatin desserts and from animals to hungry children to characters out of Andersen and Grimm-and back again to puddings and pie fillings-the personality has never changed. The confidence with which various Jell-O promises have been made has never varied. Even with all the opportunities in more exciting foods, Jell-O advertising has been outstanding in its basic simplicity...
...million in fiscal 1958. Clayton, still the biggest stockholder (he and his family own 40% worth $52 million), tangled with President Whittington and Chairman and Chief Executive Lamar Fleming Jr. over ways to start the curve up again, last month stepped out of retirement and put himself back on the board...
Mayor H. Roe Bartle and the city council were angry because Kansas City had contributed $105,000 to the March of Dimes, got back $34,000 for patient care -and now the National Foundation said it could not allot more because all its funds were committed. Snapped Mayor Bartle to a foundation spokesman: "I think you have sold the people a bill of goods." Councilman Charles C. Shafer Jr. tossed in the time-worn allegation about high headquarters overhead: "There's just too much discount by the Foundation before the money gets to the people...
...conviction that the church must be reformed. The following year he began the first of his jeremiads on the iniquity of the church, and this time no one was bored. For five years, he developed his somber theme in preaching missions throughout northern Italy. In 1490 he was back in Florence, and the words rang out: "I am the hailstorm that shall break the heads of those who do not take shelter...