Word: bungalows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scotland Yard detectives were convinced that the body in the seaside bungalow was Emily Kaye's. The trouble was going to be in proving it. Four large pieces of her body were lying in a trunk. Thirty-seven smaller pieces were in a hatbox. The rest of her had been reduced to splinters and bone dust...
...Loss. Until five years ago, Georgia-Pacific wasn't making any plywood at all. It was merely a lumber company known as the Georgia Hardwood Lumber Co. which Owen Cheatham had started 20 years ago in a tiny Augusta, Ga. bungalow. After he graduated from a military academy, young Cheatham spent a few years learning the lumber business in several small companies, before he started Georgia Hardwood with $6,000 of his own and $12,000 borrowed from friends. A crack salesman, Cheatham sold $250,000 in lumber the first year, netted $24,000. The company has made money...
...rest of the Bowles family joined in the comfortable, old-shoe diplomacy. They moved into a small, three-bedroom bungalow instead of the mansion-sized Embassy (mostly because the residence was being divided up into apartments for staffers). At their buffet dinner for the staff, they broke precedent by inviting the lowliest Indian employees. Mrs. Bowles, at first overwhelmed by the idea of ten servants, took to calling them by name, grimly began studying "Hindi in Thirty Days." The three Bowles children astounded New Delhi citizenry by pedaling their own bicycles to a public school held in a tent, where...
...happy couple got into a light plane and flew to Palm Springs. It was rough. Marion rested in a bungalow at the Racquet Club after the plane landed. Said Uncle Horace: "My little girl scuttled the bomb explosion. They [the photographers] were there for the bomb, but when they heard about her they said, 'The hell with the bomb!' " Of his earlier friendship with Marion, he said: "I never would have married Marion-then. I thought too much of the old man to have such thoughts...
...vocabulary of 30. His nursery school playmate, three-year-old Johnny Henry, now uses ten words; before he could only say one. This week Johnny, Gary and eight other small children, all of them deaf from birth, moved into their new nursery school, a five-room frame bungalow in Phoenix, Ariz. With them went one professional speech teacher and ten enthusiastic amateurs, the children's mothers...