Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that she made "very high" marks in history and natural history, did satisfactorily in her other subjects. But for some reason she left school after a year. Shortly afterward, she is known to have taught music in Cape Town, South Africa. By the turn of the century she was back in Whitinsville, giving piano lessons. In 1906 she sold the house her parents had left her for $15,000, because she needed money. By 1913 she had taken rooms at a local inn and was working as town librarian (combined annual salaries for Miss Clarke and her assistant...
...Star Audrey Merridew (Julie Newmar), a wine-piney Georgia cracker who lives (on hush-puppies) with her cussing, Grant Wooden mother on Aorta Road. In time, Dr. Kalbfus divorces his wife, traipses around in a beret, becomes convinced that Sophia Loren wants to marry him. He winds up back in Manhattan, being analyzed himself. Mourns his analyst: "It's no good. We'll never understand what happens to people in Hollywood." Sighs Dr. Kalbfus: "We've got to keep on trying...
...industry cannot afford the huge costs in researching and developing the different techniques and materials involved. Against this view, the report argues that the Government gets more for its money if it builds two or three generations of prototype models, learning from each stage. But the report offered a back-door approach to meeting Anderson's objection: the Government would "substantially" increase its applied research expenditures on civilian nuclear power, thus taking over more of the lab and engineering work from industry...
Last fall Pennsylvania became one of the first states to install a computer to issue state payroll checks automatically. The computer, put into operation too quickly, issued checks that were wildly off, left employees payless just before Christmas. The department turned the payroll job back to clerks, called in automation experts to see what had gone wrong...
...insurance authorization, now has a request for more money before Congress. In addition, the Administration wants Congress to wind up the Depression-born public-housing program, by 1963 to require cities and states to go halves (instead of one-third) on the land costs of slum clearance, and cut back loans for building college dormitories...