Word: fruits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vieux mattre; Before a word of dialogue was spoken, we knew (even those of us who separate our visceral and esthetic perceptions, and neatly categorize them like fruit flies or faeces) yes, we knew unfailingly just what this beautiful film would be like...
...than 47,000 construction workers walked off the job during the first six months of the year because of low wages, poor housing and food shortages. Economic planning in the region was a joke. Equipment for a steel mill delivered in 1954 was still waiting to be installed. A fruit cannery was finished before it dawned on its builders that there was no local fruit to can. All in all, $660 million went down the drain...
...tune of "Why powdered potatoes?" 315 students answered 13 questions covering everything from fresh fruit to variety in vegetables. Instant mashed potatoes or "library paste" took top honors as the most undesirable dish on the house menu...
...labor force. Since the free-enterprising government of Premier Constantine Karamanlis took office in 1954, it has stabilized the drachma and set Greece on the course toward industrialization. The economy is still lopsidedly agrarian. More than half of the 8,400,000 Greeks scratch out a living on uneconomic fruit, tobacco and cotton farms; 8% of the non-farm labor force is jobless, and 25% of those on the land are "underemployed...
Salinger was master of the New Yorker style, but in the last decade he has refined his writing to nuance-and-mannerism studies, which, while brilliant and compelling, define their own limits. Much of his stunning narrowness follows from this technique, and his very peculiar characterizations are the fruit of that same invention...