Word: holderness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...South, traditionally the most homicidal area in the nation, is still the U.S. record holder, according to the latest statistics. Twelve of the 14 states with the highest homicide records are Southern. The large nonwhite population in the South is only partly accountable: homicide among white males in the South ranges up to more than twice the national average. Georgia, with 14.6 homicides per 100,000 Georgians, leads all the states...
...Anyone who bought one share of G.M. stock, valued at $370, in 1920, and held it, would have had 37½ shares last week valued at $4,800, plus another $2,402 in dividends. The new split would give the holder 112½ shares...
...Japanese doll of a woman strolled into the foyer . . . Her feet were thrust into tiny gold slippers twinkling with jewels, and jade and ivory bracelets clattered on her arms. She had the longest fingernails I'd ever seen, each lacquered a delicate green. An almost endless bamboo cigarette holder hung languidly from her bright red mouth . . . There was a moment's silence. 'But darling,' she said dramatically, 'I'm your Auntie Mame!' She put her arms around me and kissed me, and I knew I was safe...
...people to revolt against him, harassed his borders, shut off his country's trade. Dictator Tito, an old hand at intrigue himself, survived it all. Now, unrepentant and unintimidated, master in his own land, Tito sat in his open Rolls-Royce and puffed on his long cigarette holder as a silver two-engined Ilyushin-14, bearing Russia's top leaders, touched down and taxied to the newly asphalted ramp. TIME'S Jim Bell reported...
...what-every-Jung-man-should-know. Moreover, its prose is so plain that a roomful of safecrackers and their molls might well while away the hours before the gelignite goes up by browsing through the work. Its most startling feature is a questionnaire jig-sawed by Authors William Gerhardi (holder of the Czarist Order of St. Stanislav) and Prince Leopold Loewenstein ("a graduate of the University of Vienna"). Although both authors lack professional psychiatric qualifications, their couchside manner is soothing as a deep trance, their text chockablock with neat quotes from Greek Philosopher ("Know Thyself") Thales, Robert ("To see oursels...