Word: jointedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Joint Enterprise. Linda Mar's is no ordinary public school. Five weeks ago, it was no more than another valley lot. Now the Oddstad School stood ready for its pupils: an odd combination of eleven standard one-story houses linked by a breezeway, with interiors converted into light, airy classrooms, the kitchen in one serving as a teachers' lunchroom. Last week there was work yet to be done; carpenters were still nailing on roof shingles; there was no electricity; the kindergarten's blocks had not arrived. But months ahead of schedule, Linda Mar's children...
...roll across the Lo Wu bridge in luxurious oblivion of the lowly footpath beneath them. In Hong Kong the touring Laborites parted company: Attlee to go to Australia, Bevan and the others to visit Japan. But behind them in Red China, they had obligingly left with Chinese newsmen a joint declaration that gave no evidence of an ideological split. "We sympathize with the efforts the Chinese people are making," the Laborites had said in a single voice, "and we believe that this sympathy and understanding should be shown by the rest of the world in immediate and practical form...
...inventing Spam, a canned pork product, which became the ubiquitous item on Allied military menus the world over. In 1931 Iconoclast Hormel shocked fellow packers by initiating a radical annual-wage plan to help his employees ride out seasonal employment fluctuations, later expanded benefit programs to include joint-earnings systems and a profit-sharing trust, took unceasing pride in his claim that no Hormel executive ever lived more than a block away from a Hormel C.I.O. worker...
Next, Mendès went before a joint session of three parliamentary committees which have been assigned to study EDC. All have reported unfavorably on it. Mendès proposed...
Last week the U.S. Navy announced that two U.S. icebreakers, the Navy's Burton Island and the Coast Guard's Northwind, had successfully cut their way through McClure on a joint U.S.Canadian expedition. Neither ship made a complete passage from the Arctic to the Atlantic Ocean; the Burton Island sailed through the Prince of Wales Strait from the west and turned around Banks Island to push westward again through McClure Strait (see map); the Northwind pushed eastward from the Arctic Ocean. Both ships used helicopters to scout the best passage through the ice. Unusually heavy melting of barrier...