Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Forced industrialization has left scars on the country's economy. Housing shortages persist because industrial construction has priority. Though the average Rumanian's material lot is somewhat better than it was five years ago, his monthly pay is still only about $67 and the goods he can buy are generally shoddy because better-quality products of farm and factory are sold abroad. Meat is a once-a-week delicacy and Bucharest butcher shops offer mostly sausage. Lately, Rumanian planners have begun to worry that factories may be pulling so many workers off the under-mechanized collective farms that...
...sunshine conspired to produce mediocre wines from the vineyards of Burgundy and the Rhine, Rhone and Moselle valleys. Bordeaux was not quite as badly hit, but its vine yards produced only one-third of the normal amount of quality wine. On simplified vintage charts, 1968 will be rated no better than 4 out of a possible...
There could be no better choice. Tevye is the very image of an impoverished Jewish father who makes his ragged clothes seem every bit as fair as Joseph's coat. After turning Before Winter Comes into a movie, Topol should find Fiddler a vacation...
...juicy kiss on the 60-year-old lady in the College House Pharmacy who gave me my very own box of Mollskin on a fateful day last spring. Blisters had been a terrible problem for me, but after my trip to the Pharmacy, life for my feet was immeasurably better. A good deal of any success I had in last year's Marathon must be credited to the little old lady...
Blisters have been my only difficulty this year, too. One day, the feet are fine. So you run a long workout. New blisters develop or old ones recur. An easy day, then you feel better, and you try again. Blisters. It seems a fact of life for the marathoner, but it's minor after all. Blisters, not life...