Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain wiped out import quotas on all but a handful of U.S. goods that have been barred or restricted for 20 years. Its gesture is expected to whet demand for American-style cocktail dresses and printed skirts, other readymade clothing of new, washable fabrics that are still high-priced in Britain. Novelties such as blue jeans, California apple juice, well-designed U.S. toys, and costume jewelry should also fare well. But Detroit automakers expect no gain, since steep British import duties and sales taxes, added to transport costs, double U.S. price tags. U.S. cars are considered too big, too flary...
...drought had turned Syria from a land that once exported 159 million Syrian pounds worth of grain a year to one that must now import 50 million pounds worth. Some Syrians, completely forgetting that Egypt itself is perennially one of the world's neediest cases, have begun to demand that Cairo do more to help. But the lack of rain in Nasser's northern province was one thing that even efficient Soldier Amer could do very little about...
...audience crowded forward to congratulate Sénéchal, one fan pausing to extract a pack of Camels from beneath his powdered wig. At 28, Tenor Sénéchal, who will tour the U.S. after his private debut, is so much in demand that opera or concerts keep him busy five nights a week. Platée, he confessed last week over a post-performance glass of warm milk, is his favorite role, and the Varieties one of his favorite theaters. Unlike Fanny Kemble, he was delighted to be rubbing elbows with his audience. "One can whisper...
...deisel engines--but specific instances that can be settled by arbitration. As for the general management desire to regain more control over work rules, most unionists feel that this is a reaction to the days of finks and company unions. Considering the progress made under present regulations, the company demand on work rules seems designed more to impede union activities than to redress grievances...
...daughter (Sandra Dee) and McGuire's son (Troy Donahue), both in their teens, wreck a sailboat and spend the night on a deserted beach. When Husband No. 1 (Arthur Kennedy) and Wife No. 2 (Constance Ford) wake up to what has been going on, they sue for divorces, demand custody of the children, pack them off to school by the first train. The adulterers get married and live happily ever after in a house that Frank Lloyd Wright built...