Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sent to Curitiba, where he was taught to speak Portuguese and was brought up almost like a son by the director of the local office of the Indian Protection Service. In civilized clothes he did not look unusual except for a hole punched in his lower lip. This, Koi explained, was for a 2-in. tusk that Xetá males wear in the jungle to frighten off enemies and evil spirits...
...jungle that sheltered the shadowy Xetás. In 1952 a gang of land clearers captured a naked young Xetá girl. While they were still debating what to do with their prize, they found themselves surrounded by weird-looking Indian men with tusks sticking out of their lower lips. The Indians spoke no words. They drew back the arrows on their bows; the girl ran to join them; and they all melted silently into the jungle...
Stores turned to the January white sales and seasonal clearances with inventories lower and spirits higher than in years. The brightest post-Christmas promotion was put on by Dallas' A. Harris & Co. For one day, it announced it would take back any "Christmas gift which doesn't fit, which is the wrong size or pattern or color, which is simply not wanted, or which duplicates another Christmas gift." For the first time ever, the offer was not restricted to Harris' own merchandise. Except for furs, real jewelry and merchandise not carried in its own store, Harris said...
...Spell. A lower-middle-class family washes its dirty linen in public -a fine piece of domestic realism, knowingly directed by Daniel Mann, feelingly played by Shirley Booth and Anthony Quinn (TIME, June...
...billion the first half of 1958. Gold flowed out of the U.S. at such a rate that there was talk of a flight from the dollar. While exaggerated, the talk underlined the fact that foreign companies are engaged in a vast modernization program, which, with lower labor costs, will give them a double advantage on world markets. Warns Alfred C. Neal, president of the Committee for Economic Development: "For the past 30 years, the U.S. has been blessed in that we never had to worry about our balance of payments. But if this keeps up, we may lose important foreign...