Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made a Commander of the Royal Order of the Phoenix, and Harry K. Messenger, Honorary Curator of the Modern Greek Collection in the Harvard College Library, received the Gold Cross of the Royal Order of George I for devoting his full time in the past two and a half years to increasing the collection...
...rebuilt by the Reds, is bogged down lugging pig iron for the nation's new steel industry; the bureaucracy is making a mess of distribution. Last month the people of Canton, who live next to a sea of fish, could get no fish; Shanghai residents had to take half of their rice ration in sweet potatoes...
...bulging head count-more than" 700 editorial and office employees. After an American Newspaper Guild strike last summer (TIME, June 23; July 21) in which job security on the overstaffed Inquirer was a major issue, management and guild agreed that to anyone who resigned or retired in the last half of 1958 the paper would pay a bonus of one week's pay for every year of employment, plus full severance pay (maximum: 31 weeks). The plan worked. In all, 142 employees quit, including 37 editorial staffers...
...False Address. Each month about half of Tarantel's press run of 250,000-300,000 goes to West Berliners; the rest is slipped into East Germany. Tarantel is designed for hidden persuasion: the size of a theater program, it can be concealed in a book, fits easily into a standard German envelope. Baer's remarkable distribution system includes mailings from other countries, including Russia, and delivery by underground members, who delight in dropping copies into Stalin Alice mailboxes and onto the bookshelves of the Soviet House of Culture. Replies to a standard request for reader comment...
...years old, and so fat that he has "groups of toes like uncooked sausages." Baby lives with his neurotic Mom; they rove from city to city, endlessly drowning their despondency in capsules of phenobarbital. The Sleep describes how Baby takes a brief waddle down Broadway, stumbles half-comatose into an automobile, weaves back home unscathed, and collapses into the miseries of natural sleep (he dreams that a fat gypsy squaw castrates him with a silver-bladed bread knife). Finally, he swallows the magic "pheeny" that returns him to the blissful, dreamless condition of "some giant foetus...