Word: feast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...peak; of lung cancer; in St. Petersburg, Fla. Hill at his chestnut-stuffed best: "Indiana! How often in this holiday season the thoughts of an exiled son have turned back affectionately to the old state! Aromas more wonderful than the perfumes of Araby. Thrilling hints of the feast to come . . . Unbearable suspense . . . the glad trooping to the dining room to wait until grandma in black silk and white lace is seated on her throne at the foot of the table...
Like fishbones at the backdoors of the feast...
...told of the last day on the island, which included a feast of illegal undersized lobsters and the sampling of cooked gull...
...shipbuilding industry on the ground that it would amount to Government interference in a civilian-market shortage. That meant that shipbuilders, who are getting only 40% of the steel they need, will have to fight for a place in line, and few suppliers are likely to favor the feast-or-famine shipyards over such big, steady customers as automakers and the heavy-construction industry...
...lost) and record spending ($44 billion) for new buildings. Everywhere, from Manhattan's jagged skyline to San Francisco's rolling hills, the steel skeletons of new skyscrapers were etched against the sky. And at year's end the industry was faced with new demands from the feast-and-famine shipbuilding industry, which has enjoyed its biggest year since the Korean war with 1,567,661 tons of new shipping on order or on the ways. The Suez crisis, plus the trend to the null supertankers, flooded U.S. yards with orders -even if no one was sure when...