Word: fullnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that it owns the mines and runs things, Bolivian labor toils hardly at all. Workers get a 13th month's pay as a holiday bonus, a 14th month's pay as profitsharing, full pay while striking, fixed weekly overtime whether worked or not, a law prohibiting firings and layoffs. Private employers must allocate a sum equal to 60% of their payroll to social security. Said a desperate glass manufacturer: 'I've offered many times to give my plant to the union...
...Howe Jr. The wife of a prosperous Boston stockbroker and Yale athlete, Margaret Howe proceeded to take the national championship in 1929, 1932 and 1934, after mothering twin daughters named Betty and Peggy. As soon as Betty and Peggy got their growth and found time to give squash their full attention, they took over. For nearly every year since 1950, one or the other has been U.S. champion...
...elegance of a Valentino cape with the muscled fascination of a Brando T shirt. The handsomely chiseled head is tipped slightly back, the eyes nearly closed. He is always backed by two guitars, a bass fiddle and a conga drum, to which may be added other instruments, or a full orchestra, or a twelve-man chorus...
...week. Of seven earlier Vanguard firings, six had been failures, and the seventh put only a grapefruit-sized, 3.25-lb. satellite in orbit. Last week's shot was perfect. All three stages of the 72-ft., pencil-slim rocket fired without a hitch. The satellite, which had the full design weight of 21.5 Ibs., settled into an orbit slightly higher than had been expected. Its perigee (lowest point) is 347 miles above the earth; its apogee (highest point) is 2,065 miles. Its batteries will go dead in about two weeks. But unless some future space-cleaning agency removes...
Alone beside the double bed, the Parisian beauty stares in agony at the silent telephone. Why did her lover leave her? How can she live without him? At last the phone rings. She swoops it up-wrong number. Then it rings again-it is he. She answers gaily, full of chatter, only to be crushed by the news that he is about to marry. "This is the last line that still connects me to us," she sobs. But he is unmoved. After 45 shattering minutes, she hangs up, crying, "I love you, I love you, I love...