Word: dirt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Teresa Gonzales is the wife of a bricklayer living in Colonia Mexicana, the dirt-poor shack town of Brownsville, Texas. Now 35, Mrs. Gonzales has had four children in 13 years. The first died in infancy. The next two, both girls, were delivered by dangerous high-forceps methods. Fortnight ago, Teresa Gonzales was to be delivered of her fourth child...
...hurt, but nearly drowned himself in it. After acknowledging that Boudreau was "probably the most popular player in Cleveland history," Greenberg bubbled on that, in sacking him, the new management was just trying to "do what was right for the fans." Boudreau fans considered that Greenberg had done them dirt...
...artisan's son, born in the dirt-poor village of Fuendetodos in 1746, he had the ruthless energy that stops at nothing and that nothing stops. Goya fought bulls and men with equally savage joy; had he written his autobiography, it could have been as proud and action-packed as Benvenuto Cellini's. He lived in a time known variously as the Age of Reason and the Age of Enlightenment, but, Spanish to the core, he substituted allegories for reason and sardonic darkness for enlightenment...
...reappoint him, but Tubbo had hung on to the job. He boasted a personal fortune, not very satisfactorily accounted for, of $300,000. After ex-Policeman William Drury and Lawyer Marvin Bas were murdered a month ago (TIME, Oct. 9), it developed that they were about to unload some dirt on Tubbo before the Kefauver Committee investigating organized crime...
...pound ... If you lived among the cliff dwellers of New York City, and if you wanted a little potting soil to put around your geranium plants on your window sill, you could buy it at your neighborhood seed store for 7? a pound . . . Steel is literally cheaper than dirt...