Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...read your Nov. 9 article on the steel strike with great interest. I have a suggestion to end long, costly strikes for all time. Simply lock the union and management in a room and let them out only when they have come up with an agreement. This method is used to elect a Pope, and has great success...
...long, swishing costumes of grass (to keep away insects), others who wore only strings of polished fish scales or small stones around their necks and hips. At some stops, their presents of candy, fishhooks and pocket mirrors were rewarded by exhibitions of war dances and feats of bravery. One great problem was food and drink. They sat down to meals of diced wild turtle, and wild boar hash ("Good, too," said De Carvalho), but politely declined offerings of broiled green lizard and a drink called chicha, which native women made by chewing corn, spitting it into a bowl and giving...
...winter's first freezing storms blew eastward last week down the Rocky Mountain slopes, whipped snow flurries across the Great Plains wheatlands, swirled into the Midwest's corn-hog belt. Farmers, their 1959 row crops in, and a little leisure time at hand, began to talk among themselves, on street corners, in grange halls, in bunking rooms, in the circles around the stockyard stoves. As always, the talk was about how hard it is to make a dollar. But this year the talk had the extra heat and urgency that come with falling farm prices. Farm-belt politicians...
...student rally which welcomed him to Providence Airport yesterday, Rockefeller commented, "Any student who enjoys the advantages and human dignity of living in this great country should be glad to take an oath which shows his belief in its principles...
...produce a living art, instead of a passive acceptance of "great names," America must separate its high and middle cultures, MacDonald warned. "Let the majority eavesdrop if they wish," he said, "but their tastes in art should be ignored...