Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Discouraged kids have known his smile, His friendly, guiding hand . . . Please help him back to health again And joy will fill the land...
...doors and bobbies examining all fans for concealed tomatoes and eggs, Terry Dene appeared before a packed movie house in Derby. Dressed in a long, pale jacket and skin-tight pants, he began his hip-flinging comeback with Just One More Chance. There were hoots from angry men ("Get back in the army"), but the whoops from the ecstatic girls drowned them...
...much for the career-woman question. But there is another hour to fill-plenty of time to solve the race problem too. So meanwhile, back at the cold-water flat, the Negro maid (Juanita Moore) is having trouble with her light-skinned daughter, who is yearning for the day when she will be old enough to leave home and pass herself off as white. The day comes, the girl goes, and the scriptwriters settle down to the point of the picture: an interminable scene in which the poor old Negro maid dies of a broken heart. Excerpts...
...Manhattan last week Nancy Alverson, 31, left her 2½-year-old daughter Lorraine in their Greenwich Village apartment while she went shopping. Back in "a few minutes," she found the child dead, apparently of suffocation, with her head swathed in the adhering layers of a plastic garment...
...Treasury must even compete with other federally backed obligations to find customers-often coming off second best. Many investors who once insisted on a Government bond are now happy to buy a Government-guaranteed mortgage. Not only is the interest rate higher than what the Government pays on bonds, but the investor does not have to wait until maturity date to get his money back...