Word: half
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More than half the mothers in her study eventually married, and despite the stereotype of the fatherless slum family, half of them were still in touch with the first child's father or living with him. Although half the women were less than 20 years old when they had their first child, close to a third had no other children. Nearly half the mothers were not on welfare at the time the survey was made; only one-third had been on public assistance for a year or longer. And as for blatant immorality, the statistical evidence, although not clear...
...only a myopic receptionist too vain to wear her National Health Service spectacles and a concierge who had been with the house for 43 years and certainly knew a well-to-do Yank tourist when he saw one: blue suit, rep tie, white handkerchief folded so that exactly half an inch protruded from the breast pocket; razor-cut hair, a bit dark for his age, and well-manicured fingers and lacquered nails clutching a copy of Fielding's Travel Guide to Europe...
...Albert and Princess Paola of Belgium visited the villa for skeet shooting and the time that a U.S. Navy admiral suddenly and inexplicably vanished in the middle of a Fielding party. It turned out that he had fallen from the rock garden, broken a leg, and painfully dragged himself half a mile to his waiting barge...
...wallet pocket on Broadway, he continually cautions them to count their change in taxis, to drink only bottled beer in nightclubs ("Mickey Finns are far from uncommon"), and to drive carefully. He observes with a shudder: "Your chances of spilling your blood or dying are three and a half times greater on French roads than on American roads...
...market tickers in the lobbies. They're people who want to test Europe?live on the Left Bank of Paris instead of the Right, eat in the same restaurants the local people eat in." Frommer's "people" are mainly travelers in the 30-and-under age bracket?currently nearly half of all the U.S. tourists who visit Europe. He appeals to them so gainfully that within ten years he has parlayed Europe on $5 a Day into a company that publishes 14 separate guidebooks, operates a tour service, owns hotels in Amsterdam and Copenhagen and is currently planning a public...