Word: lined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gift of changing the audience's mood from mirth to melancholy by altering the tone of his voice. And his stage presence is remarkable; his one or two fluffs sounded almost like part of the script, and he steadied a wavering child actor without missing a line...
Crowds enviously studied the windows of Moscow's new Mosodezhda men's wear store last week, eying the fancy suits, coats, smokingi and fraki (tails). But inside, clerks told disappointed shoppers that these were "future" models. All they had for sale was the familiar old line of $80 and $120 suits, featuring outmoded double-breasted jackets and bell-bottomed trousers. "A drab selection," scribbled one customer in the shop's complaint book. "No quality suits. I am shocked, filled with indignation." "Outrageous," wrote another. "Patterns bad, workmanship careless...
Most college presidents still feel that they cannot give up federal funds for needy students, however much they might wish to follow the Harvard-Yale principle. Ike voiced sympathy: "I rather deplore that universities have found it necessary to find, for the moment, a narrow dividing line and therefore keep a number of citizens out of taking advantage of the loan provisions that the Federal Government set up." But the President also put his full weight behind a possible compromise at the next session of Congress: repeal of the disclaimer affidavit, retention of the oath of allegiance. "For my part...
AIRLINE PILOTS OVER 60 will be grounded after March 15 by the FAA, which believes it hazardous to have older pilots command "the bigger and faster jets, carrying more passengers over longer routes." The Air Line Pilots Association will fight the ruling in the courts...
...budget Canterbury is a kind of unrest home where an inmate ekes out his life like an indeterminate prison sentence. Most of the attendants are too overworked and too unfeeling to do more than slap the patients into line. The wards are the circles of a neo-Dantean inferno. In Stationary, the patients are strapped into chairs to groan, curse and soil themselves through the day. In Hydro, a patient is wrapped mummy-fashion in icy wet sheets for 72 hours at a stretch. In the "untidy" wards the bedridden turn their heads obsessively from side to side, rubbing...