Word: best
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This Is the Best." The graceful rocket strained on its launcher as its engines built thrust. It lifted in grandeur in the morning sun, trailing a white-hot fire that looked like an inverted candle flame. Seconds after lifting-first slowly, then ever faster-Vanguard's farewell roar reverberated over the Cape in a blanket of sound. Half a mile from the pad, Canaveral men cheered: "Go, baby, go! Keep going, baby! Don't quit, baby...
...Census Bureau's cautious conclusion: men with better-than-average income "have the best chances of being selected as marriage partners"&$151;and, presumably, of maintaining the partnership...
...devaluation seemed due, the Bank of England hiked its bank rate sharply from 5% to 7%, the highest level in 37 years. The shock worked. The flight was reversed: gold and dollar reserves rose $689 million, and by the first of the month stood at $2,539,000,000, best since 1955. In the world's money markets, the pound's worth rose from a low of $2.78 to $2.81. Last week the bank's bowler-hatted runners fanned out again from Threadneedle Street to tell lesser banks and exchanges that its rate...
...written with a nice sense of pace. The camera, moreover, is wittily used. The long, slow start in which the husband and wife go through the motions of getting ready for work is a piece of slickly observed americana. The acting is sound, too, even in the side parts. Best of all is the work of Director José Ferrer, who has even managed to coax a graceful, flexible performance out of wooden-faced Leading Man José Ferrer...
...trouble for any reader who tackles her today is that Ouida usually wrote with a perfume atomizer about aristocratic characters now very nearly extinct. None loved a lord more dearly than Ouida, and, mounted on the plush Pegasus of her imagination, she wrote to hounds with the best of them. She was a hopeless romantic-but she had the sense to know it. "I do not object to realism in fiction," she wrote, "but the passion flower is as real as the potato...