Word: clothes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago, "Elmer the Elephant," the ear-flapping cloth hero of a local NBC-TV show, calmly went on advising kiddies to brush their tusks every day while a pair of A.F.L. unions battled over his insides. One union claims that the undercover man manipulating Elmer's trunk with his arm is an artist; the other insists he is merely a stagehand handling a prop. The National Labor Relations Board is now trying to decide whether NBC has violated a labor practice law by giving the job to a performer instead of a stagehand...
...employed 500 men or less, 2) had good labor relations, and 3) were capable of expanding production 100-400% without running into marketing difficulties. Using these conditions, they jointly selected five plants that turned out a variety of products, including motorcycles, compressors, pumps, liquid-gas bottles, agricultural equipment, woolen cloth and pharmaceuticals...
...will end at Eastertide* have been for Christians a time for prayer and devotion, and for all men a time of urgency and stress. History, poised between Ivy and Jughead, between the 38th parallel and Dienbienphu, has enforced a Lenten mood upon the nations with the sack cloth of political conflict and showers of radioactive ash. The chocolate bunnies, the dizzy eggs and the pretty bonnets of Easter are the more incongruous for it. For Lent looks to the real Easter; and to lift high that great light in man's darkness is the holy challenge of the churches...
...their pockets plus the rest of their month's salaries-45,000 pesos in all-for the body. The mule drivers agreed, and led the students up to the point, 9,800 ft. high, where they had reburied their find. The body, well preserved and wrapped in cloth, looked old indeed, and the students rushed it by pickup truck to Santiago. There the students took it to the university's institute of anatomy, where it was put in a freezer along with other cadavers...
...taken with a severe case of neuritis. Her Roman Catholic friend will light a candle and make a novena for her healing. Her Christian Science friend will send her literature telling her how to remove the consciousness of pain. Her cultist friend will give her an 'anointed cloth' to be laid on the afflicted part. Perhaps after a while, her pastor . . . comes to visit. The conversation is light and encouraging. Before he leaves, he offers a vague prayer for her healing. If she were to stand up at that moment and cry out, 'I'm healed...