Word: builded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Human nature being what it is and sex desire so imperious, it may be far safer for men and women to have sexual intercourse frequently enough so that they do not build up undue tensions regarding...
...more emotion. Warming up to the spellbinding oratory that used to send his Georgia wool hats whooping and stomping, the freshman Senator spelled out what he declared to be specific flaws. "While many of our farmers cannot get their crops to market over muddy roads," said Farmer Talmadge, "we build a huge six-lane turnpike in Portugal to a gambling resort. We have sent opera singers to Italy and ultraviolet-ray lamps to India. And we have set up a pension program for overage Chinese Nationalist soldiers...
...swimming pools, their bottoms knocked out to prevent water from collecting, have been buried far beneath the new roads, a possible puzzle for future archaeologists. A classic case of inconvenience occurred when a new road cut off a farmer's privy from his house, forcing him either to build a new one or make an eightmile. trip and pay a toll. (He built a new one.) In Atlanta, an apartment building is being moved from the path of a new road while tenants continue to live in it with the services of all utilities...
...failed to train enough people to staff the new schools, hospitals, factories. From a political point of view, it was too slow to add what experts call "impact" projects, i.e., works that hungry, impoverished Iraqis can see in front of them, instead of distant dams that take years to build. The board started only last year to build its first 2,500 low-cost housing units in the capital. Nuri confessed to Parliament last fall that the highway-building program had been "a failure," owing to inadequate preliminary surveys before laying roads across a country whose water table lies often...
When Tom Spies was a rawboned youngster in the cotton, corn and cattle country of northeast Texas' Red River valley, there was enough food (Tom grew to burly quarterback build), but the average farm diet was deadly monotonous. It consisted of the three Ms-meal, meat and molasses, the meal being corn meal and the meat fat back or side meat. A related fact-though no one at the time suspected the connection-was that every year the South had 400,000 new cases of pellagra (Italian for rough skin). The victims' feet and hands (sometimes neck...