Word: longingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...economic news of 1959 was that, in a year when the U.S. reached new heights of prosperity, the fruits of high production and resourceful salesmanship were at long last shared and enjoyed by a multitude of other nations...
...stabilize your wage costs," says he, "you will lose export orders, lose gold and get unemployment. It is as simple as that. You have the strongest economy in the world, the highest productivity in the world. There will be no need to devalue the dollar as long as you keep your wages geared to productivity...
...Elliott's satire, Among the Dangs. The Bangs are a homicidal South American tribe and the reluctant adventurer conned into going among them is a penniless college student who has taken an anthropology course, and who further qualifies, as he notes, by being "a good mimic, a long-distance runner, and black." His university persuades him to go, and when he returns, crawling with data and skin disease, he is rewarded with a lowly academic post...
...furred, and with such inherited smartness that it will take water from a pail without teaching. By extension from animal to human husbandry, Jarvis contends that if a pregnant woman adds honey and vinegar to a well-balanced diet, her baby will have a thick shock of hair and long, strong fingernails, both needing to be cut the day it is born...
They Came to Cordura. Hero Gary Cooper, the man of courage through a long cinematic career, turns coward in this $4,000,000 western but achieves, with Rita Hayworth's help, a different, spiritual bravery...