Word: dones
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...teacher of ceramics to students in the middle and older age brackets, I am in contact with what is happening to people as a result of our increasingly "easy life." People who relinquish the common home chores unknowingly also give up "status"-and the satisfaction of each one having done something himself. So, in one sense, all of the industrial advancements only make my work more necessary—building confidence in the latent abilities of each of my students. Now my students make the very soup bowl (out of clay, glazed and fired) into which they will pour heated frozen soup...
...explained that the U.S. is basically in sympathy with French attempts to end the struggle in Algeria. But in private session he argued adamantly against France's pullback of support from NATO'S integrated defense (see FOREIGN NEWS), agreed to disagree until more staff work could be done on the problem...
...call John L. Lewis a liar and least of all Franklin Delano Roosevelt.'' He denounced F.D.R.'s first Vice President, John Nance Garner, as "a labor-baiting, poker-playing, whisky-drinking, evil old man." Of the late A.F.L. President William Green he said: "I have done a lot of exploring of Bill Green's mind, and I give you my word there is nothing there." Said Harry Truman of John L. Lewis: "I wouldn't appoint him dogcatcher...
...dangers of cholesterol in beef. Warsaw's Trybuna Ludu sang the praises of the Tartar, an all-horse-meat restaurant that was opened with much fanfare in Rzeszow. "People are going in droves to the Tartar," claimed Trybuna Ludu. "Its varied menu shows what can be done with horse meat...
Eccentric Alliance. Hollywood gossips kept track of Anne's long and apparently aimless list of dates. Says she: "I wanted to get married-just about anybody would have done. I'd even thought of marrying Jessel." She finally married Martin A. May, nine years her senior, the son of a wealthy ranching family. It was an alliance that seemed eccentric even for Hollywood. Martin was studying law when he met Anne (after five failures at the bar exam, he gave up the effort). He wanted to keep the marriage a secret until he could tell his mother...