Word: looks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soviet Union Beal became a hero who lectured throughout the land, wrote pamphlets on the Workers' Paradise. But in three years paradise had begun to look like a very different place. Wrote he: "I found just the conditions against which I was fighting over here . . . The workers were hungry ... in rags. I never saw the equal of that misery in this country...
Said the "Wee Free's" resolution: ". . . We believe this is ... repugnant to the most sacred convictions of the great mass of His Majesty's most loyal subjects, and sets a most regrettable example before the youth of the nation, who look to Their Royal Highnesses for guidance and inspiration...
...unseasonably humid Brazilian fall, the men sweated damply in woolen suits or sported open-necked shirts and cruise clothes. Their wives, dressed in everything from purple voile to tweeds, seemed positively dowdy to Rio, where the "New Look" has swept skirts down almost to the ankle. In the big Municipal Theater, delegates and wives gathered with some 6,000 other Rotarians from 37 countries, listened to Senior Statesman Oswaldo Aranha address them in Portuguese. "I can just feel what he's saying," gushed a Rotary wife...
...room)* off the Plaza Espana, in Caracas, diners smacked their lips over a favorite dish: rice and black beans. Their approval marked the success of a significant experiment. For a long time, Dr. Nacio Steinmetz,† a Polish refugee scientist, had worked to develop a vitamin-rich soybean to look and taste like the common black bean which is the chief source of protein for millions of Latin Americans. The diners at the Comedor Popular had eaten the product of his work without knowing that it was anything more than the plain black bean...
...pinball industry is not the only one affected by the vacation migration. The barbershop trade is another. The Yalies may tell you that Harvard men never take haircuts, but they're wrong. It takes considerable skill to give that moss-grown look to pate after pate, and Cambridge barbers have it. They'll have to forget it until fall, however...