Word: enjoyable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation that could afford to enjoy itself. On terraces high above torpid Manhattan, in screened lanais in Dallas and Miami, and in cattle camps along the Mexican border, Americans grilled their steaks and warded off the heat with long, cool drinks. Caravans of tourists swarmed to the mountains and national parks. Ten thousand pleasure craft were anchored in California's San Diego and Mission bays, and beaches everywhere were jammed. Minneapolis braced itself for 50,000 fun-loving American Legionnaires on convention bent. Almost every event seemed to draw big crowds: thousands of Chicagoans tensely watched the league-leading...
...five-bedroom, colonial-style house east of Urbana, Ohio, Farmer-Lawyer Vance Brand can look 2¶ miles over pasture and corn land to a white silo that marks the boundary of his 1,700-acre farm. But for the last few years he has had little time to enjoy the view, has been intent on a much broader horizon. As a director of the Export-Import Bank since 1954, Vance Brand, 52, has traveled more than a quarter of a million miles at the job of overseeing longterm, low-interest loans for the world's underdeveloped nations...
...Quetta (pop. 84.000 humans, 20,000 camels), a thriving West Pakistan trade center 536 rugged miles north of Karachi, the crimson pomegranates-cbme big as softballs, and the government train arrives sporadically in a hiss of steam with stale copies of daily newspapers from Karachi and Lahore. These imports enjoy only a languid sale in the bazaar, for Quettans, with a literacy rate of 10.3%, are not the reading sort. Several misguided publishers have tried to give Quetta a daily newspaper of its own; the most successful of these lasted only 18 issues. Quettans get along with a bizarre medley...
...countryside begging for alms, were trampling the newly sprouting rice plants, and the Lord Buddha ordered his priests to keep out of the way until the crop was full grown. As centuries passed, the practice turned into a kind of spiritual excursion that every Buddhist layman tried to enjoy, and eventually entering the temporary priesthood became a matter of course; laborers, businessmen, monarchs (King Phumiphon in 1956) went through the 90-day ritual. "It's like going to college in the United States," explains a Thai. "Every boy wants...
...stubborn fire has burned for 13 years, defying half measures to put it out. Fumes seep out of the ground, creep into homes and stores. The soil underfoot is always warm; grass stays green in the dead of winter; and roses bloom in December. Carbondale people do not enjoy these distinctions, and last week they were looking forward to getting rid of them. At long last, the state and federal governments have agreed to extinguish the great fire by the drastic, costly method of digging it out of the ground...