Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Customs law covering original works of art has been unchanged since 1930. uses some definitions that date back to 1916, fails to take account of the revolution that has taken place in half a century of modern art. The travails that this situation causes an institution such as Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art is enough to make Picasso turn primitive. The M.M.A. owns one Picasso collage (paste-up) valued at approximately $15,000, but by customs definition, it is not art at all. In the involved process of gathering works by famed French Abstractionist Jean...
Almost by himself, Bill Mazeroski last week atoned for the Pirates' losing the first half of a doubleheader with Milwaukee, 7-4. Bill broke up the second game with his batting. He hit two doubles, two singles, scored three runs and batted in two, beat Milwaukee...
...union went on working without a contract, thus losing for good the "no-contract, no-work" threat that it has used against the auto companies before, G.M. stepped up the pressure. It stopped collecting union dues by payroll checkoff, and told union shop stewards that they can spend only half their working hours on union business. Ford and Chrysler, whose contracts expired three days after G.M.'s, followed the G.M. formula for operating in the no-contract period. If there are no contracts by the end of June, automakers may shut down. With a backlog of 760,000 cars...
...oysters, giant Australian prawns). And to make them pay off, it kept costs firmly tied to the runway. One big advantage is relatively low pay scales ($7,000 for a Connie captain v. $21,000 in the U.S.). Another is crack maintenance that cuts costly engine failures to about half the world airline average. Net result: a 52% jump since 1953 in what Qantas Boss Turner likes to call "bottoms uplifted...
...warden, a real sad square: "Man, you're draggin' your rear axle in waltztime." Pretty soon the hipster is smitten with a kitten who is all the way out and talking tight. But this boy is looking for more than a ball. He's hip that half the oofuses in this school are on, and he's got a stack of big ones to buy the hard stuff and muscle in on the gig. So he sounds the cat that pushes the junk, and then he tries to score. So they fall up to the main...