Word: giving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hand. As a group they were beginning to look like a different kind of German. It was a difference that could be seen in little things-the nervous eagerness with which the director of the Reds' reception center greeted new arrivals, his small embarrassment at having to give them 30 marks' pocket money, the East Germans' skittishness at the approach of a Western newsman. Both East and West felt the urgency of the widening gap and tried to bridge it with words; white-haired Kirchentag President Reinhold von Thadden-Trieglaff, 68, of West Germany, spoke awkwardly...
...Even so, the 1961-62 total will fall $600 million short of the $4.4 billion originally programmed for both years, is expected to slow the building schedule by six months. But the very fact that cash is ready to flow again will permit the states to resume contract awards, give a fresh lift to the construction industry in the next few months...
...those of the U.S. homeowner. A creative, hard-driving businessman, Price has transformed the prefab from a poor cousin into a respectable member of the housing family. To rid the prefab of the boxy, cheap look and boring sameness that once plagued it, he has hired top architects to give his houses style, turns out four basic models in 600 different variations ranging from a three-bedroom $7.900 home to a $150,000 custom-built one. Price also has another valuable asset: his brother George, National's president and a hardselling salesman who travels four business days...
...Midwestern victim was only 13 when he broke out with hives while playing basketball. The boy had to give up sports because every time he played he got hives, with swelling around the eyes, in his throat, and sometimes in his hands and feet. Studied at a big university medical center, he was diagnosed as having an "exercise-type urticaria...
Short-Storyteller and Novelist (The Poor house Fair) John Updike likes to give his characters barium breakfasts. As they swallow life's little ironies or surprises, he puts his literary X-ray machine to work photographing the newly revealed conformations and deformations of man. In this collection of 16 short stories, Author Updike's plots vary-they may turn on a boy's whistle, a bachelor girl's bed, a bottle of wine-but the personality changes that result share the kinship of human nature well-observed...