Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...among others, set free. Paul and Florence met for the first time. She, at 33, was somewhat recovered from her prison experience; he, at 56, accustomed to long sessions "at the cinema," was hollow-cheeked and scraggy-necked, with bowed shoulders, but with a jutting chin and a strong, level gaze. A couple of weeks later they were married...
...seven and eight hundred thousand." Fats talks the words in his songs, and they can be understood-a rarity among rock 'n' rollers. The lyrics are clean, but the beat is lowdown and as basic as they come. His head-rolling piano antics never sink to pelvis level...
Less successful papers have thus been quick to feel the pinch of production costs, long fattened by featherbedding mechanical unions and skyrocketing newsprint prices, which at $146 a ton (v. $134 in New York) are six times the prewar level. Aggrieved by the Laborite Herald's woes, one Labor M.P. even charged in the Commons' debate that the "giants have been deliberately inflating costs because they know that [they] will squeeze out their weaker brethren," while a Tory went so far as to propose beefing up ailing papers with government-paid newsprint subsidies...
...Construction contracts in April dropped 9% below the year-ago level, reported F. W. Dodge Corp., yet 1957's four-month total of $10.3 billion in new contracts is just about equal to 1956's alltime peak...
...rest of the issue is at the usual level: proficiency tempered by ennui. This seems all too natural in a magazine which insists on emphasizing the womb-like quality of undergraduate literature by referring to itself as "Mother Advocate...