Word: cementing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Washington State, and his close-knit family. Born May 31, 1912, he was the youngest of four children in a working-class family in Everett, a small mill town 28 miles north of Seattle. His Lutheran parents had emigrated from Norway in the 1880s; Father Peter was a cement worker, Mother Marie was a stern but loving matriarch who infused in her son a strong sense of right and wrong...
...Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart." ?Yasser Arafat...
...Scarce Cement. They do not come to look because they cannot afford to buy. Never has construction and mortgage money been so hard to get or so expensive. The Federal Reserve's money squeeze has driven the interest rates that builders must pay on construction loans to an impossible 18% in some areas. Mortgage interest rates have leaped to an average 9%, about two-thirds higher than the going rates of the mid-1960s, and some home buyers are paying as much as 24% on second mortgages...
...Long Island's with-it Hamptons, one comely lady last week sported a shirt labeled simply VAN CLEEF & ARPELS-a Fifth Avenue gem dispensary-explaining that her husband had bought it in place of "other merchandise from there." Superstar Paul Newman's T advises: DRINK WET CEMENT . . . GET REALLY STONED. Indeed, with the likes of Joanne Woodward (wearing Husband Paul's face centered on her front), Yoko Ono, Carly Simon and an Alabama comedienne and L.A. talk-show regular who cottons to a replica of a fried egg on each well-poached breast, show-biz bashes these...
...also took steps to cement U.S. ties abroad. Press Secretary J.F. terHorst said that Ford has accepted an invitation to visit Rumania, probably some time after his trip to Japan in late fall...