Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...constantly on the defensive. Eastern Europe was gone. Russia, in effect, stood on the Elbe River and the Adriatic Sea. The rump of Europe scarcely differed in effectiveness from Europe in the 5th Century, when the Slavs had pushed to the North Sea and the Frankish Kingdom occupied the Low Countries and France...
Designer Christian Dior, who claims to have brought about the fall of the hemline, told an inquiring Los Angeles reporter that the cocktail-gown neckline should be "low enough to be attractive, but not low enough to be indecent."* Just where is that boundary? "That," philosophized Designer Dior, "is a philosophical question...
...Soviet's Zhebrak was on solid, safe ground. But he took another dangerous step forward. He admitted the world's low opinion of Soviet genetics. There is an impression abroad, he said, that all Soviet geneticists are followers of Lysenko. This is not so, said Zhebrak. Many Soviet geneticists "are sharply critical of [Lysenko's] theories...
When Rickey hired Jackie away from the Monarchs there were loud and angry outcries, and not all of them were in a Southern accent. Some of the ugliest comments were spoken in ripe, raucous Brooklynese. Even some owners in the low-paying Negro leagues protested against "raiding" their men. There had been Negroes in big-league ball before, but they had been careful to identify themselves as Indians or "Cubans." The late Minor League President Bill Bramham cried: "Father Divine will have to look to his laurels, for we can expect Rickey Temple to be in the course of construction...
...properties: "All hydrocarbons are the direct, inalienable and impressible property of the nation." They fight shy of mentioning just how much the expropriation cost Mexico. Ten years after expropriation, Pemex, the Government oil monopoly, still loses an estimated $3 million a month. To keep up Mexico's comparatively low oil production, known fields are being pumped too fast for maximum extraction; they will be exhausted in 20 years. Only a handful of new wells have been drilled this year...