Word: household
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There was something frighteningly familiar about the evacuation: the crowded, reeking buses, the pushcarts piled high with household goods, the silent rows of shuttered shop fronts waiting for the first Communist soldiers to appear. Namdinh brought to mind hundreds of other cities in China during 1948 and '49, in Korea during...
...feeling ear for the English she could not hear, and then set forth on the first of the long lecture tours-speaking in a sort of strangled soprano, which is the closest she can come to intelligible English, with Teacher Sullivan translating-that were to make her name a household word...
Politics around the Cooper household was all-pervading, absorbed by osmosis from infancy, and Judge Cooper inculcated his children with an iron code of honor and a sense of unaffected friendliness for less fortunate neighbors. Often, when he sat down to a heaping dinner, the judge would dispatch one of the boys to a back-alley neighbor with a tray of food from his own table...
...after all. Meanwhile, she had never been to a big-league baseball game, but when we got the franchise, she, for her part, became crazy about it ... Now we're each all wrapped up in the other's favorite project, and the peace in the Miles household-it's wonderful...
...been general manager of the G.M.C. Truck & Coach Division, went back to a new and bigger vice president's job, and as a director to boot. In addition to bossing G.M.C. Truck & Coach, Kyes will head up G.M.'s Dayton operations (engines, accessories, etc.) and household appliances (Frigidaire and Delco...