Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...army. Israel, at present, does not recognize the 1949 armistice agreement with Egypt, and still refuses to permit UNEF troops on its side of the border. But Israeli kibbutzim fraternize with the polyglot army, and Israel's government station broadcasts regularly in Swedish, Portuguese and Spanish for the benefit of UNEF troops. Nobody says so out loud, but everyone is content to have UNEF stay where it is. Last November the U.N. Assembly voted to maintain UNEF for another year...
...Altar for el-Shaddai. Author Hill draws on imagination to describe the vale of Shittim, location of the wicked cities of the plain, Sodom and Gomorrah, though with benefit of modern geological research. "A pall of thin, grey haze hovered ominously over the valley and the smell of sulphur filled the air. There were places . . . where naphtha oozed from the ground, slimy and flammable. There was also asphalt (bitumen) for the gathering . . . Petroleum gases and light fumes of sulphur often hung on the air above the plain . . ." Through Canaan ran an enormous geological fault, and a shift in this...
...minority of four Cambridge Civic Association councilors may benefit from the disagreement among the Independents and succeed in electing one of their number. If they have their way, they will probably elect the city's first woman mayor, Mrs. Pearl K. Wise or Mrs. Cornelia Wheeler...
Though no one wants unemployment, coldly statistical economists can find some virtue in it. expect the U.S. to benefit through increased productivity. In 1957 productivity rose barely 1%, lagging behind wages. In 1958 it should rise sharply, not only because the new plants built by industry are more efficient but because increased competition for jobs should make everyone work a little better. Moreover, as jobs grow scarcer, wages will flatten out. While the Autoworkers' Walter Reuther still talks of demanding a four-day workweek and other plums, wage demands will be tougher to win from management, whose bargaining position...
Screening Process. In Dayton, arrested for bigamy after being married to seven men since her 13th birthday, the last two marriages without benefit of divorce, 23-year-old Cynthia Corraditti offered an explanation: "It was hard to find a guy I could trust...