Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Road. In St. George's, West Indies,'the Anglo-American Funeral Agency offered a free case of whisky with each "de luxe, custom-built casket...
Gold Brick? In Knoxville, Tenn.. an ad in the News-Sentinel offered a house for sale, appealed to the bargain-minded: "This home has many extras built in for the owner. Owner moving to his job. Priced at FHA appraisal...
...snow, thousands are heading for the slopes and skiing's high, heady adventure; from New Hampshire to New Mexico and West Virginia to Washington State, skiers roll up record business for resort operators and equipment sellers. A dedicated band of cultists, skiers seem oblivious of skiing's built-in hazards. Asks one: "Isn't it worth maybe a broken leg every five years?" Typical of skiing's expansion is the fact that in a sport once confined to rugged men, a central figure today is a determined and independent Eastern socialite who is not a championship...
...mill, in Rourkela in the state of Orissa, is being built with the help of German capital and engineers. The other is the Soviet-designed Bhilai steel mill, rising, a month behind schedule, on what was once a wilderness on the sun-scorched plain of central India. To a large extent, the two mills-along with one more being built with British help and another with American, each of 1,000,000 ingot ton capacity-represent the chief hope of India's shaky economy. They are also playing a significant role in the complicated drama of the cold...
...once sickly child ("At the time, my navel was down-beamed"), Murata became fascinated as a young man with health fads, began delving into the Spartan training of the Zen Buddhist priests. By 1951, at the age of 55, he had built up a whole philosophy around the navel's influence on health. He started the Hesoten (literally, Navel Heaven) Society, swooped down upon factory and-office to proclaim that "the heaven-pointed navel receives blessings therefrom." The navel, he told his growing audiences, is "a medal of culture with which every person is born. Polish it. Value...