Word: lots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brightly lighted Christmas tree that always touched our living-room ceiling, and the family singing before the fireplace, and the windows of the neighborhood with all the colored lights." Some day Harold Baar will spend Christmas with his family again. "But," he says, "there's still a lot to do in Culion...
Clouds of girls drift across the stage. Girls soft and bright, girls fast and funny, girls with dreamy looks and pouty looks, girls with languid smiles and impudent grins, girls with unruly bangs and neat velvety chignons, girls with eyes slanted a little and girls with eyes slanted a lot. Amid all the girls, one stands out in twilight softness. When she first appears, her slow, sloe eyes look down, ever so shy. Then she bounces her head in a pert little Chinese kowtow and the hoarse, sweet husk of her voice sounds hauntingly soft. "Ten thousand benedictions...
...took a $30-a-week job at Macy's after graduation, at 31 was made head of Macy's huge, inexpensive ready-to-wear department. He next took a turn at advertising, but soon found it was not his kind of selling: "I thought a lot of what went on was just air." When he met Lingan Warren, the autocratic genius who had built Safeway from nothing into a huge chain, he made such a good impression that Warren asked him to go to California. Magowan had worked up to be Warren's administrative assistant when...
...back $2,000 a month (his mother's farm in the main oil area has an estimated $1,300,000 of untapped oil); a hamburger-stand operator who leased the stand for $15 a month settled back to collect $1,500 a month in royalties on the parking lot...
...ordinance, the size of buildings is controlled by provisions which limit the allowed amount of floor space according to the size of the lot on which the building is constructed...