Word: fired
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...permanents her hair and paints her nails, smokes, wears a wristwatch, Western dresses, nylon stockings and high heels. She may live in an apartment house that has also radically changed Japanese life. Formerly, a wife was chained to her home, not only by her duties, but by fear of fire if the wood-and-paper house was left unattended. Rice cooking used to take an hour before serving; now the housewife merely fills an electric rice cooker (cost $10) and turns a switch...
...bill authorized Alessandri to grant a once-and-for-all nationwide wage adjustment, reorganize the tax system, fire civil servants, establish a new monetary system, modify the nation's banking. He will also be empowered to reorganize public utilities, consolidate government or semi-government agencies, control monopolies and practices that restrict free trade. The powers are drastic, but so is the squeeze on Chile's economy. The 1959 budget of $465,600,000 is unbalanced by $242,500,000; industrial output has sagged 10% in the past three years; food production falls far short of keeping up with...
...Century-Crofts; $3.95), Dorothy Van Doren reveals that her husband is an addict "not of the super, the egghead, type of program . . . but of mysteries, westerns, crime stories, true stories and a quiz or two. He is lost. I get myself comfortable on the living-room sofa by the fire with a book, and presently I hear the beginning of the idiot commercial and know it has started again. Sometimes I watch too; sometimes I stick to the book. But the professor is faithful-all too often he is faithful. One evening there was an unusual amount of shouting...
...Director Huston led a duck-shooting party to a mountain lake near Durango. One of the hunters: Audie Murphy, the U.S. Army's most decorated soldier in World War II, and a Texan man of action. When Murphy's hunting companion stood up in their boat to fire, the recoil threw him overboard. The boat rolled over, stunning Murphy. As the two men floundered atop the submerged boat 350 yards offshore, an Austrian freelance photographer, Inge Morath, spotted them through her telephoto lens and went to the rescue. A handsome brunette and champion swimmer, Inge jettisoned her cameras...
...field parties has excavated a Bronze Age site near Burdur that looked at first like a small village of a dozen small houses. Deeper down, the diggers found mud and stone fortifications 10 to 15 ft. thick, and a wooden upper story that was apparently destroyed by fire about 4,500 B.C. Under the ruins were human skeletons and a great mass of pottery, clay figurines and other artifacts...