Word: dirt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three-fifths desert, with no oil, no industrial raw materials, tortuous roads and one inaccessible port (Agaba). The population, tripled t01,400,000 by the annexation of part of Palestine and the influx of refugees, is divided against itself. Refugee camps are an organized horror of dirt and malnutrition. Jordan scrapes along largely on British handouts, and glories chiefly in its 15,000-man, British-officered Arab Legion, best army in the Arab world...
Self-confident Hussein means to be King. Recently he made a lightning tour of government offices, snorted: "I saw coffee, newspapers, piled official papers and dirt, but I did not see work and efficient officials, and I shall not allow this thing...
...about the city: "New York is the dirtiest city in the world ... a once exquisitely beautiful woman who has declined into a dirty, degraded, blowzy person ... a scab on the face of our country." The streets, she added, were covered with garbage, "and I don't mean dirt...
Such praise only annoys the testy professor even more. "Nonsense," he snaps. "It's no more difficult than restoring any other old painting. This painting has been ruined by a bunch of morons." The professor's problem: not only to remove the ages of dirt and mold, but also the layers of clumsy retouching brushed on by past restorers. "It's extremely simple," he says. "You just scratch until you reach the real Leonardo." Then, smiling behind his spectacles, he adds: "The only difficulty lies in knowing exactly when to stop...
...wine under the Petri label and distribute it nationally. (Today, less than 10% of Petri's output is in bulk.) He also expanded Petri's more profitable sweet wine business while holding on to Petri's dry wine market. By 1945, having learned the business from dirt to decanter, he took over as president...