Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Suzy Parker, 25 or thereabouts, was a rising Hollywood star. She was tall, and had what Brooklyn-bred Hollywood folks call a good built. Her soft auburn hair and her cool, beautiful face decorated fashion magazine covers in the days when she was earning a reported $100,000 a year as a model. More than that. Suzy was a smart girl with a fondness for the kind of glib crack that sends fan magazine writers fluttering to their typewriters, and she even had a small flair for acting (Ten North Frederick-TIME...
...hour, and the Swedes have learned a lesson from the wartime bombing of Hamburg, when raging fires in the city sent superheated air surging into the shelters, suffocated and burned their inhabitants alive. In case of fire above ground, the Swedish ventilators can be shut off while built-in oxygen machines make the air livable. ¶ In Göteborg the subterranean refuge extends for seven stories underground; in Malmö the city shelter is used as a ballroom; of the four atom-bombproof Stockholm shelters, the one under Engelbrekt Church will serve as a columbarium for cremated parishioners...
...Ranchers. Today this Massachusetts-sized land still confronts the problems of its progress. It cannot stand still. It has built homes for people from 80 different lands, coming, as Ben-Gurion once said, from several different centuries. Its new pioneer town, Elath on the Red Sea, had only 500 residents in 1955. now is a booming seaport of 4,000 frontiersmen-half of them fresh from Tunis and Morocco, and a thousand more from Hungary-building piers and unloading cargoes in the hot dry wind, living on tax-free double pay to encourage settlement. The Crusader city of Acre...
...even so vital and pertinacious a people could have built this country without the two unique institutions that guided them: the army and the big trade union organization known as Histadrut. Israel's tight little army creates the indispensable security, but it also is the nation's most forceful educator. It takes immigrant boys for 30 months' compulsory duty, and girls for 24. Jewish youngsters from Yemen and Iran have learned from top sergeants not only how to launch a rocket but how to use a toilet, sleep in a bed and eat from a table...
...owns and operates at least 60% of the nation's business. It invests in iron foundries, textile mills and shipyards, factories from Dan to Beersheba. When the army's victories made Israel safe beyond these scriptural bounds, Histadrut reopened King Solomon's (copper) mines and built a luxury hotel to attract tourists to Elath. Denounced as monopolistic (its grandiose Tel Aviv headquarters is known as the Kremlin), Histadrut has lately agreed to invest jointly with private enterprise...