Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when she used her high but lilty voice did her seductive talents poke through. The Hit Parade was back (in stunning color for the 200,000 color-set owners), with a bevy of new performers led by young, moist-eyed Jill Corey, whose vocal renderings come with a lush, built-in sob. On the densely populated show called The Big Record, moonfaced Patti Page was mostly what the late Fred Allen called a Pointer, i.e., someone who points at someone else doing an act and says "Watch him"-the sort of trick that "you could teach...
...operates out of the normal "T" formation, frequently using flanker plays. With a line averaging under 195 pounds, James relies on speed and deception both up front and in back. The main strength of Cornell's play is in the backfield, built around Tom Skypeck, its big quarterback, and the shifty, fastmoving halfback, Bo Roberson. Roberson did most of the carrying against Colgate, averaging five yards per carry in 20 attempts...
...thick seam of uranium on Dysart land. That started the rush. In the past two years, the region around Ambrosia Lake and the neighboring town of Grants has been found to contain more than 65% of all estimated U.S. uranium reserves. Now the area is being built into the nation's most important uranium-processing center...
...daily, they imported 354,600 bbl. a day in August, estimate a 337,200-bbl. rate in December. Both Tidewater and Standard of Indiana appealed for quota boosts, held that the formula has actually cut their imports 22% below the levels they had planned to supply recently built U.S. refineries that are processing foreign crude. Tidewater charged the curb meant "confiscation" of its new $200 million refinery in Delaware City...
...foreign oil is endangering the nation's security by cutting down oil exploration. Despite accelerated exploration in recent years, he said, the nation's reserves are not increasing fast enough. "To disrupt and impair our sources of supply abroad and jeopardize relationships of industry that have been built up with foreign nations over a long period of years can result in a more serious threat to national security than any temporary excess of crude-oil imports...