Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Viscount for home, Garcia had the promise of $48.8 million in loans from Japan to help him build the Marikina Dam, buy machinery and to expand the Philippine telephone system. He tactfully made no mention of another part of the Japanese reparations: a $2,500,000 yacht now being built in Tokyo for the exclusive use of the President of the Philippines himself...
...scorned in China as an imperialist luxury. At Loyang, in Honan province, twelve primary schools recently heeded the Central Committee's directive that "the future direction is for schools to run factories and farms, and for factories and agricultural cooperatives to establish schools." They banded together, built the "Red Scarf" steel and iron factory, now claim production of 40 tons of metal daily. To ask that summer vacations be spent vacationing is "a decadent viewpoint ... It should be known that after spending a busy period of time in study, taking up manual work over a short period is good...
School First. As basketball players go, the Big O is no loose-jointed skyscraper. Solidly built at 6 ft. 5 in., 199 Ibs., he depends on lightning reflexes and graceful coordination rather than treetop height. Oscar makes all the shots from anywhere on the floor with devastating proficiency. Last year Robertson had the advantage of playing with a talented big teammate. 6 ft. 9 in. Connie Dierking, who had to be watched too. This year Dierking is gone, and Robertson is a marked man. Opposing teams can afford to take outlandish liberties in concentrating their defenses on him. But with...
Last week Nassau County's Medical Examiner Leslie Lukash told why. Sharry Rubin's bloated stomach had refused-possibly because of her emotional tension -to empty through its lower outlet. The excess food digesting in the stomach drew in fluid and built up a powerful back pressure. As Sharry made violent but vain efforts to release this pressure by vomiting, it burst the upper part of the stomach. The contents (more than 4 qts.) began to spill into the abdominal cavity, caused peritonitis...
...done to construct an intelligent approach to world affairs, the words "dynamic" and "creative" are used with much frequency. Such words tend to be bandied about with too much ease today, so much so that they have lost almost all meaning. But Bowles is not proposing verbal solutions built on cliches. He is not playing the Madison Avenue word game, but engaging in an old American activity of saying what you mean...