Word: basketfuls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SCIENCE), the Soviet Union had again "outstripped the U.S." Amid shouts of post-toasty laughter, he ridiculed the U.S. space satellites as apelsin-sputniks -orange-sized Sputniks. "By all the rules of arithmetic," he crowed, "we can see that they [the U.S.] will need a mighty big basket to hold enough of these oranges to equal our Sputnik...
Sinclair Weeks refused to cooperate. "We still want that bill," said he. But getting it was entirely another thing-and if the 24-year-old reciprocal trade program, third and perhaps most important of Dwight Eisenhower's imperatives, was not to be killed or turned into a basket case, it would require all the political pressure the President could bring to bear...
Overnight Righetti became a nationwide sensation. His flock rallied to him and from the courtyard 20 ft. below sent up food to his window in a basket on a rope. Crowds gathered, and Righetti decided he might usefully preach from his window. "I don't know how long I will be here," the pastor shouted below. "It is in God's hands." Communist election campaigners accused the townspeople in Fondi of "religious intolerance," and with a national election close at hand, nobody in the government wanted to stir up the anticlerical issue...
...third day, a piece of legal paper went up the rope in the basket. It authorized the temporary reopening of his door if Righetti would agree to find new quarters within four months. The imprisoned pastor of Fondi agreed, and the masons hurriedly tore open the bricked-up door to set him free...
...ahead of 1957. American's first-quarter sales were the greatest in its history (31,260 cars), and, after years of red ink, it reported a handsome $2,380,895 profit. Yet Romney's gain puts little cake in Detroit's lunch basket. Some 84% of the industry's 807,000 workers are Big Three employees, and an estimated 450,000 are laid off; millions more workers in thousands of supplier plants spread across the entire U.S. economy are dependent upon the major auto companies...