Word: livings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crowded inhabitants of big cities tried to live cannily. They avoided hot subway gratings and steaming manholes as martens avoid traps; when walking they tried to route themselves past the doors of air-conditioned movies, where they could breath in a little coolness. The touch of a barber's hot towel, or the simple process of swallowing hot coffee, was enough to make a shirt go limp or a woman's make-up shine greasily. In the packed and airless slums, tens of thousands slept on rooftops or fire escapes. The heat seemed even more pitiless out across...
Meanwhile, though he continued to live like a little shot in a lower-middle-brow home in McLean, Va., he began to act more & more like a big operator and a man who knows the right people. As a result, the Senate's special investigations subcommittee called him in to ask him if he was causing the republic any harm...
...ACTH molecule can be determined, he hopes to be able to stop making it in minute quantities from hogs' heads, and start to synthesize it by the hogshead. Until then, the millions of sarthritics and the countless sufferers from gout and a dozen other diseases must live in hope...
...even apply for parole-they just sit there in jail making martyrs of themselves and stirring up trouble." But there were signs that Larry Gara had also had his fill of martyrdom. Last week a minister friend was trying to find a job for him and a place to live, so that he could put in a formal application for parole. Wrote Gara to the minister: "The days now go rather rapidly, but the weeks creep and the months seem very long . . . But God does grant me the strength sufficient unto each day, and I feel that...
Houses may not be so confining as the shells of scallops, clams and turtles, but neither do they fit, or look, as well. More & more U.S. families, dissatisfied with the shells they live in, are out looking for better ones. In 1948 they bought or built 2.4 million homes. This year prices on new houses are down as much as 10% and business should be almost as good. How good, and how different, will the houses...