Word: hearths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hearth. Evita spends $40,000 or more a year just for dresses from Paris' top designers.*In 1950, she ordered gowns from Balmain, Dior, Fath and Rochas. She has the furs of a czarina, the jewels of a maharani. Last year Perón took a fancy to a U.S. visitor and volunteered to show him around the presidential mansion. While displaying roomful after roomful of Evita's clothes the President guffawed: "Not exactly a descamisada, eh?" Evita herself is not a bit abashed. She is quite likely to appear at a streetcleaners' rally dressed...
...their occupation of Manchuria during late 1945 and early 1946, the Russians took from China about $2 billion worth of Japanese-built heavy industrial equipment-rolling mills, hearth furnaces, synthetic gasoline plants, steel plants, etc. Last January, Peking announced that the Russians had begun to replace some of the machinery. At about the same time, a 1951 production target rate was announced; it will probably bring the Manchurian output to about 50% of the rate during the Japanese occupation...
...complaint to the London Times from Reader Peter Allison of Stapley Road, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, was headlined, A CRY FROM THE HEARTH. Reader Allison protested that it was "unforgivable" that "a journal so rich in tradition . . . should fall down on this one vital issue which affects every household in the country." The issue, according to Reader Allison: three times he had tried and three times failed to light his fire with a copy of the Times. If he failed once more, he planned to transfer his business "to a newspaper which shows more readily combustible qualities...
Only top teams in top sports are subject to bribery. If a team is bundled regularly into Madison Square Garden or Yankee Stadium, and sent out on radio and television until it almost encircles the American hearth and bar, it is likely to be talked about. Where there is sports talk, there is difference of opinion, and where there is difference of opinion, there is betting. Sooner or later, some tycoon of the betting world attempts to bring order out of the chaos of sporting unpredictability. Whether he succeeds or fails, there is a bad smell, and sports figures spend...
...example of that rare talent among men, to stand off and talk to us as if he were right among us. He has always been the warmth by my hearth...