Word: lanes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lots of wavy hair like Liberace." No. 4 bestseller: Teach Me Tonight (Abbott), with the DeCastro Sisters in a twangy, eagerly enunciated request for seduction. The melody is in the contralto, while the other girls warble country-alto above. No. 11 but climbing fast: The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane (Victor), in which the Ames Brothers croon their kind of bumdadabum, bumbum, bum in a shuffle rhythm, sing the praises of their heroine ("Me-o, myo what a girl") tongue-in-jowl, right up to the trick ending...
...million Union Electric plant in St. Louis when plans were announced for a $33 million atomic energy plant to be run by Mallinckrodt Chemical. Outside Pittsburgh, Builder Don M. Castro had barely finished work on a $10 million "Miracle Mile" shopping center (with a special "cruising lane" for window-shopping from the car) when he started on another $10 million center 25 miles away. The Omaha Public Power District put the finishing touches on a $23 million power plant, and then announced a $10 million addition to keep up with the increase in demand while the plant was abuilding...
...These Indians have no sense of the road," bellowed an American business representative as he steered his new Dodge through a crowd of laborers on the narrow mud lane to Bombay. Between blasts of the born he pointed at a young worker crowding his left fender and growled, "Take that fellow over there--you never know which way be may turn...
...following candidates have apparently been elected to the House of Representatives from the Commonwealth: First District, Esleton, Republican; Second District, Bolin, Democrat; Third District, Philbin, Democrat; Fourth District, Donahue, Democrat; Fifth District, Rogers, Republican; Sixth District, Bates, Republican; and Seventh District, Lane, Democrat...
Besides Brown, other members of the committee are Lane Faison, Jr., Chairman of Williams College's Art Department; Dean Keppel of the School of Education; Donald Oenslager '23, prominent stage designer and member of the staff of the Yale School of Drams; Charles Sawyer, Dean of the Division of Arts of Yale University; Wolfgang Stechow, professor of Art at Oberlin College; George Wald, professor of Biology; and John Walker '30, Chief Curator of the National Gallery in Washington...