Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...croupiers, cashiers, musicians, barmen, waiters and entertainers, all thrown out of work by the revolution. Senorita Pastora NúÑez, director of National Savings and Housing Institute (formerly the government lottery), called in the casino owners and found them willing to meet her requirement of seven weeks' back pay for all employees. "I highly disapprove of the way you make a living," she lectured, "but we are reconsidering our earlier decision...
Clearly not having the time of his life, Author William Saroyan sailed for a film assignment in Yugoslavia, disclosed a little human comedy all his own: "I owe $30,000 in back income taxes. I don't have anything except old clothes." In fact, he added, "I need about $200,000 to get on my feet"-and unless he gets it, he might stay abroad the rest of his life...
...rotten with soft courses and "life adjustment" theories. After Tommy's first-grade year at the Lakeland-Afton public elementary school-where he got instruction in such matters as "language arts and social studies, whatever that means," Mary Krai recalls with scorn-his parents refused to send him back. Instead, they set up a stiff, 5½-day-a-week curriculum for the boy, taught all the courses themselves except German. They are well enough qualified to do so; they are college graduates, and Mary Krai has held teaching certificates from Nebraska and Colorado. Her 35-year-old husband...
...Back at their farm, the Krals waited for a verdict-due after briefs are filed late this month-and Tommy Kral boasted to a visitor: "Sir, I want you to know I'm reading a book only 13-and 14-year-olds read...
...clotting. Attending doctors from Cornell University put a cannula into the radial artery in the patient's wrist, connected this by polyethylene tubes with the core of the artificial kidney. Key part of this core: cellophane tubing of ordinary sausage-casing size. From the core, other tubes led back to veins in the patient's elbow...