Word: branded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Everybody enjoys a lovable lunatic, and Rosalind Russell is a delight as the kindhearted madwoman of Beekman Place, bringing up her small nephew in a world of sidecars for breakfast, living herself in sumptuous dishabille, now marrying, now dispensing with marriage, now rescuing her nephew from a stuffy brand...
Church and state are separate powers in the Mennonite credo, but the brethren prefer to give the state as wide a berth as possible. Their tightly knit, theocratic little communities assiduously care for their own-and just as assiduously administer their own brand of law. Last week Mennonite law clashed resoundingly with the harsher realities of the law of the land...
Rolling down the brand-new Kansas Turnpike that will be officially opened this week. Wyoming's unwary Republican Governor Milward L. Simpson forgot that the fancy road comes to a dead end at the Oklahoma state line. His car hurtled off the concrete into an Oklahoma wheat field. The only one of five riders to be hurt was the governor's wife Lorna, who had forgotten to fasten her safety belt, but escaped with slight cuts and bruises...
...DeSoto has a 40-h.p. boost, to 290 h.p., brand-new styling, and a third, lower-priced model called the Firesweep, in order to compete better against Mercury, medium-priced Oldsmobile and Buick...
From New Orleans' Schwegmann supermarket (whose bar dispenses brand-name liquor for 30? a shot on Sunday) to Los Angeles' $6,000,000-a-year, 24-hour-a-day Ranch Market, grocery stores now find that Sunday is the third biggest day of the week (after Saturday and Friday). As supermarket stocks have expanded in postwar years to include goods ranging from shovels to shotgun shells, discount houses, clothing stores, furniture and appliance dealers have turned to Sunday selling. Many department stores even hold "Sunday special" sales. For auto dealers, Sunday trade often amounts to 50% of total...