Word: ests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Roses"), but couldn't finish it. Yet almost everything he writes for TV is snapped up by eager producers. It takes him as little as seven hours to do a 30-minute show, and he can turn out an hour-long drama in three days. The long est he has worked on a script has been two weeks, and Wilber thinks it is significant that it is one of the few still unsold...
...SANITY, i.e., no bats in belfry. ††† "Earnest money got by leaving deposits on old clothes" in five letters. Answer: DYEST. Ximenes explained that deposits on old clothes refers to dye; to get money is to earn; earn out of earnest leaves -est...
...often happens, the new pain reliever was discovered by accident. The venerable (est. 1764) Swiss pharmaceutical house of Geigy Co. was trying to find a solvent for the almost insoluble painkiller, Pyramidon. Geigy chemists hit upon phenylbutazone, which worked well as a solvent and then paid a big bonus: it turned out to have remarkable painkilling qualities of its own. Geigy started churning out phenylbutazone (from coal tar) for research...
...gendarmes and mobile guards, with helmets, Tommy guns, gas masks and rifles, were ready in the square. That evening, Communists by the thousands tore loose with stones, iron bars, clubs, broken bottles and metal chairs there and at other salients-the Gare du Nord, the Gare de 1'Est and a Metro station appropriately named Stalingrad...
...everything was written in a private shorthand of hieroglyphic complexity, e.g., "N.a. j. et. d. sa. sal. de bil une Ba; il. dde au Gm. sil sa. ce. q. c'e. C'une ma. de G. il d. dab. q. cest un bal. p. ses enf. Est ce p. ser. a desc. sur un remp...