Word: freshness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Statistics announced that in October the ups and downs averaged out and the index held steady for the second month in a row at the August level of 123.7 (the 1947-49 average = 100). Up: new cars, women's and girls' clothing, rents, medical care, cooking gas, fresh vegetables, beef, milk. Down: house furnishings, men's and boys' clothing, fresh fruits, pork, eggs, poultry (lowest level since December 1942), restaurant meals (first decline since June 1956). The long-range outlook as most experts saw it: renewed upcreep in prices under the push of wage raises...
...years ago a heavy fog invaded Donora, Pa. (pop. 14,000), was soon reinforced by smoke and dust particles from the hustling community's furnaces and fires. For almost a week, residents breathed the polluted air. By the time fresh winds came to the rescue, half of them were ill, 20 had died. "It could happen again," was the point that a handful of experts recently made clear on Pittsburgh's KDKA...
...innocence which characterizes their work. Both were passionately fond of the beautiful, even of the pretty, and achieved a voluptuousness and bursting fullness which epitomizes the joy a poet finds in all nature. Both were especially involved with the rhythm of the female form. Maillol wrote, "Girlhood with its fresh bloom, its flowerlike innocence, its confidence in life, is for me the world's greatest wonder...
...Square is living modern. With nearby Quincy a geometrical tombstone to Georgian elegance, Cronin's due to explode into a seven-story hygenic skyscraper, and the Harvard Trust new-faced with fresh brick and steel, the Square sloughs off its gingerbread and tries to make "form fit function...
...Dallas was a repeat of Rossini's rarely performed romp, L'ltaliana in Algeri, introducing 23-year-old Spanish Mezzo-Soprano Teresa Berganza. The possessor of a silvery, dulcet voice, she acted the title role (an Italian girl imprisoned by a libidinous bey) with a kind of fresh, provincial charm. A onetime pianist, Mezzo Berganza has toured Europe in recitals but has had little operatic experience. The Dallas News's Critic John Rosenfield noted that L'ltaliana in Algeri had "ended up as a love affair between prima donna and patrons." The whole season ended...