Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republican gubernatorial nomination, thereby throwing the gauntlet to GOPolitician Len Hall, ex-National Committee chairman, who had announced earlier, had been hoping for a clear field for the August G.O.P. convention. Rockefeller, who turned down pleas that he run for Senator, is no professional politico, but he has built a distinguished longtime record in public service...
...down. Business began to slide early in 1957, several months before the recession started. "We had become spoiled," says San Francisco Retailer Harry Jackson. "There was very little urgency or excitement in our field until two years ago, because houses were going up so fast that we had a built-in market. The only creative part was modern furniture, and that was mostly Scandinavian...
...addition, a lightweight atomic reactor built by Aerojet went on display at Rome's International Congress on Electronics and Atomic Energy; another went into operation in Sicily, while still another is operating at the International Science Center at the Brussels Fair...
...feel that only the sun, sea and sand qualify as neither phony nor vicious. There is a Beat Generation bop-talker who tries to soft-sell Jordan on a cool love affair. There is a native Neanderthal man who tries to pin Jordan to the floorboards of the half-built ginmill in which he hopes to mulct the summer trade. There are assorted homosexuals, spivish repairmen and alcoholics-unanimous from TV, ad alley and publishers' row. The crisis on which the plot slowly turns is whether the Neanderthal man will complete his ginmill to the ruin of the summer...
Author Waller, 35, is himself a Manhattan public-relations man. His novel is printed on mint-green paper with "chromatically related'' dark green lettering. The Whiteford Paper Co.'s E. A. Whiteford, who minted this process, argues that the book has "built-in sun glasses" and saves the reader the "repellent" eyestrain of conventional black and white...