Word: chores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million fortune, gets little out of it but hard work. He is chairman of five boards of directors, president of twelve companies, a director in 16 others, as well as steward for a $3,800,000 stock interest in Armour & Co. Last week Billy Prince, 43, added another chore: he was elected president and chief executive of $468.3 million Armour, world's second biggest meat packer (first: Swift), succeeding Frederick W. Specht, 67, who remains board chairman...
Last week Stephan was all primed to take off on a vacation with his wife and 15-year-old son in his new Volkswagen. There was just one more chore to do before the fishing trip. A lot of old Russian shells had been fished out of Berlin's Havel River and brought to the police explosives site on the city's outskirts. To Stephan the job seemed routine. But as he unscrewed the fuse of a six-inch grenade, friction may have touched off a spark. The shell went up with a great explosion. When the smoke...
...believe that his own life is pointless and worthless. He is not exactly a coward, but he has lost all willingness to risk his guts in the air. With a lucrative smuggling job as its pivot, the scenario spins lengthily around Taylor's prospects of carrying off the chore for a slimy international slob (Martin Gabel). The issue: Will Airman Taylor permit himself to be airborne long enough to lug a trunkful of British banknotes out of a frozen sterling area? It seems an easy way to pick...
...Church with a stock character out of Central Casting to be trotted out at will and bedecked as a sort of ecclesiastical Liberace for crassly commercial purposes. In so doing, not one jot is added to the stature of the Church or its mission in the world, a chore, incidentally, reserved not to Hollywood but to the Holy Ghost. Let us devoutly hope that the cassock and habit may enjoy eternal rest from moviedom's commercialism, and pray that they may never decide to shoot St. Augustine's Confessions with George Raft in the lead...
Next day the Prime Minister and three companions flew north to forest-ringed Lac la Ronge and a few days' fishing. As a concession to Diefenbaker's new job, his companions excused him from his customary chore as cook. Trolling the glass-smooth waters for lake trout, Diefenbaker hauled in a six-pounder...