Word: cessful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reader must turn to an unlucky Jim-James Porter, irascible hero of John Osborne's play, Look Back in Anger (TIME, April 22). Look Back is a high-decibel three-act diatribe, mainly on mom, wife, God and country. Hero Jimmy has just written a poem called "The Cess Pool." His wife hovers over an ironing board-one of the endemic props of this school of social realism, together with dirty dishes and wet "nappies"' (diapers). At the slightest provocation Jimmy turns into a verbal epileptic, particularly concerning his wife -"When you see a woman in front...
...going to limit production where there is no profit . . . The farmer and rancher can't buy machinery, household supplies, clothes, and get for their produce prices at the bottom of the ladder. One answer is for small operators to sell directly to the consumer who has ac cess to home freezers and commercial lock ers. A cushion for seasonal fluctuations is the answer to inflation, labor unions, fairtrade agreements...
...years in the doldrums of peacetime Army life. Then he made his way into the Air Service, trained on Jennies and became a pursuit pilot. He rolled up 4,444 hours of single-engine flying time before he moved on to become one of the authors of U.S. suc cess in heavy aerial bombardment during World...
Allen, also coach of Kansas' basketball squad, declared that the midwest "hasn't got the mess you have in New York," and that Los Angeles was a "cess pool" as far as gambling and fixing games was concerned...