Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crease resistance" and easy "wash-ability" are the essential qualities the college girl will demand before investing in a garment for summer wear this year...
...response to this demand, manufacturers have increasingly utilized wrinkle-free fabrics such as nylon, orlon, and acetate for everything from shorts to evening clothes...
...fears for its exports of Blue cheese, which add up to only a minuscule percentage of U.S. consumption but could pay for one-third of the coal Denmark must import from the U.S. each year. Peru, encouraged by Point Four officials to develop tuna fishing, feels threatened by the demand of U.S. tuna fisheries for a protective tariff...
...Communists set out to test U.N. determination by breaking off the talks for two months. The result was to bring Matt Ridgway's army down on them with almost as much weight as before, and the Reds came meekly back to the table and gave up their demand for a truce line on the 38th parallel. Washington might have learned a lesson. Instead, it all but stopped the pressure. U.N. settled down to a wait & see campaign. Casualties fell off, but over the past ten weeks the U.S. has still suffered a weekly average loss of 60-plus killed...
...worst: he got a fractured skull, and the hearing in his left ear was so impaired that he was rejected for military service. Even in that war year with the Cubs, he hit only a lackluster .245. The next season, warming the bench, he made a tight-lipped demand of Cub Manager Charlie Grimm: "If you can't play me, trade me." Grimm traded him to Brooklyn for Pitcher Bob Chipman in a deal that attracted very little attention. It was a deal that made Eddie Stanky...