Word: cro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...part of its new look, Big Steel has brought up to date some Cro-Magnon personnel policies. More than half its 271,000 employees are paid incentive bonuses, often up to 40% over base pay. One result is that the number of man-hours needed to produce a ton of steel has decreased from about 16 in 1941 to about twelve today. One reason this was possible: in that same period U.S. Steel boosted research outlays fivefold...
...living tenants, the shaft sank, foot after foot, toward the dimmest beginnings of human history. Subtle changes in bits of stone, covered by the garbage of ancient man, told of the shifts of culture. Solecki spent many feet of digging in the Aurignacian period (of the well-built Cro-Magnon men). Then he entered the Mousterian period (of the Neanderthal men, stooped and beetle-browed). At 26 feet below the surface, he found the scattered bones of a child less than a year old who had died something like 70,000 years ago. The child had lain there while dirt...
...most vociferous advance-guard abstractionists. Yet De Kooning himself makes jokes about the word "abstraction" and confesses that he is "working out of doubt." For the last couple of years he has been doubtfully highballing down an art highway almost as old as abstraction itself (which stretches back to Cro-Magnon times). He has been painting women that anyone can recognize as female...
Jockey Charlie Burr put aside his comic book, settled back more comfortably in his deck chair, and surveyed his pleasant surroundings. Florida sunshine warmed his skinny (5 ft. 3 in., 101 Ibs.) frame; the flowers of Tropical Park-hibiscus, cro-tons, ixora-bloomed in profusion around the track; banks of clipped Australian pine lined the clubhouse drive. This, he decided, was the life-a far cry from his boyhood years on the farm in Kansas. Last week, just two months after he lost his apprentice allowance (a five-pound weight concession), Charlie Burr entered an exclusive fraternity: he became...
...overalls, and his art was on a new tack-one which took him straight over the horizon and out of most solid citizens' ken. He borrowed ideas from the whole range of art history, carving figures that looked like Sumerian fetishes, and drawing in every manner from the Cro-Magnon to that of severe 19th Century classicists such as Ingres. His subject matter became anything at all-dogs, women, roosters, bones, furniture, dots, musicians-violently twisted, hacked, smeared and rearranged to suit Picasso's moods...