Word: line
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...happily, this does not last. Without troubling you with the suitably gory details, La Grande is taken to her just reward. At the funeral, everyone asks Alexander what he will now do. He replies, "Nothing...nothing...me? ...nothing" to the line of mourners as it files by--until he finally realizes that is precisely what he intends to do--absolutely nothing...
Agnelli first proposed a merger in 1962, on the theory that Ferrari's illustrious reputation would add luster to Fiat's line of rather unglamorous work aday cars. Officials of Ford Motor...
...constantly on the move. Today's mobile homes are nothing of the sort. They rate their name only because they are trucked to special parks, where they are placed on concrete platforms and usually stay in place permanently. Put together by semiskilled workers on the assembly line, the mobiles have been largely unaffected by the soaring costs of conventional construction. Within the past ten years, they have become by far the No. 1 source of low-cost housing in the U.S., accounting for at least three out of every four homes sold for less than $15,000. Sales reached...
Mile-Long Trains. In the project, the two principal Australian companies -Broken Hill Proprietary Co. and Colonial Sugar Refining Co.-have an impressive line-up of international partners. American Metal Climax has a 25% interest; Japan's Mitsui and C. Itoh and Britain's Selection Trust Ltd. hold lesser shares. Their hardest job has been to get the ore out from the Mount Newman area, which is 780 miles by road from the nearest large city, Perth. In just 14 months, U.S. and Canadian companies laid down 265 miles of railroad track to connect the site with Port...
Author Charyn knows how to make a pratfall out of a pitfall, how to convert sordid realism into a sort of surrealism. The residual moral is as harrowing as the punch line of a good black-humor joke is meant to be-what cruelly absurd ends men are capable of reaching simply by being cool and reasonable...