Word: lesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...democracy." A vote in favor of lopping a day off the nation's traditional six-day school week seemed a foregone conclusion. To no one's surprise, the five-day forces among the kids took the spotlight with a motto delectable as smorgasbord: "Saturdays off mean less work...
...Teacher's Quality. Gradually, Braithwaite and his class learned mutual respect. The students' "sir"' became less forced, and the teacher's prejudices began to break down as he found a few quick, honest minds among the slum children. Progress was not smooth: Braithwaite was forced to outslug the class troublemaker, a hulking amateur boxer, and habitual bigotry cut through newly learned tolerance when the class refused to take flowers to the house of a Negro boy whose white mother had died. (Tolerance ultimately won, and the entire class showed up for the funeral...
...Mimi Hines, 25, was the main attraction at the Empire Room of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria last week. Next, they are heading for Los Angeles' Coconut Grove, a stint on the BBC in London and a $3,500-a-week contract with the Tropicana in Las Vegas. Less than two years ago they were hitting the tank towns for $375 a week. Now they are one of the best-paid attractions in the business-and one of the most appallingly corny acts ever to hit the big time...
...total of stainless steel ingots produced (895,119 tons). Still refiguring at week's end, the B.L.S. expected that Dave McDonald's answers would prove correct. Moaned one bureau staffer: "Had we goofed on beet sugar instead of steel, nobody could have cared less...
...Eisenhower appeared at the meeting to make a plea for his foreign-aid program. Part of that program, said Ike, is "a freer flow of world trade. We must do this without prejudice to our national security and without inflicting undue hardship on our local producers. Especially among the less-developed countries we must use every available means to assure that these people not only add to the free world's strength, but eventually become valued participants as both sellers and buyers in the markets of world trade...