Word: bag
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jackie is a young and beautiful woman, yet they want her to sit around like an old bag who can't move for fear of breaking a leg or something. We don't think they realize what a hit she is making with the world by being herself and not acting as if she were some sort of semideity...
...communications king. In 1951, with a generous loan from the state-owned Philippine National Bank, he bought Asia's largest sugar refinery, the Binalbagan-Isabela Sugar Co., Inc. Last year, after expanding the Lopez holdings to include more sugar mills, a cement company and a jute-bag plant, the brothers pulled off their biggest coup. Worried by a campaign against foreign ownership of Philippine utilities that was sparked by the Lopez-owned Chronicle, the U.S.-owned General Public Utilities Corp. decided to sell off its big, well-run Manila Electric Co. Head of the government-underwritten Philippine syndicate that...
...emergencies, they need special techniques for artificial respiration-as was demonstrated at Memphis by a volunteer who wore a plastic bag over his head, and snugged tight around his neck, for half an hour. But they can eat and drink normally and do practically everything that they could do before the operation-except swim, since they cannot close that hole in the neck. One other exception, notes Manhattan's Speech Therapist John McClear wistfully, is that they cannot play a wind instrument. McClear used to play the saxophone...
...Short-Range BAG One-Eleven: Even more promising than the D.H. 125 is British Aircraft Corp.'s 63-passenger BAG One-Eleven, which is powered by two Rolls-Royce fan jet engines, one placed on either side of the rear fuselage. The world's only short-range commercial jetliner now in production, the BAG One-Eleven aspires to be the workhorse DC-3 of the jet age when it goes into commercial service in 1964. British Aircraft Corp. has 33 orders, including four from the U.S.'s Mohawk Airlines and six from Braniff. Price: about $2.5 million...
...pleasantly meandering way, Moore's work is an offhand introduction to etymology, a tribute to the language's first lexicographer. Dr. Johnson and a bright rag bag of quotations Moore happens to like. He ridicules the late George Bernard Shaw for his obsession with simplified spelling, correctly observing that tidied spelling would sterilize English of the still traceable ancient origins visible in its words...