Word: lowliest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mentholated success, was so affected by the sight of all this clamoring at his door that he took a drastic step for the head of a billion-dollar hierarchy. He insisted on answering his own telephone, gave battle orders that he wants to be flashed personally by even the lowliest Reynolds salesman on every development on the cigarette front...
...after eleven long years, the zeal to build a brave new India is cooling. The national leadership, from Nehru down to the lowliest babu, seems more tired than inspired. The ruling Congress Party politicos, in their 60s and 70s, seem reluctant to make way for younger men. Corruption, cynicism and maladministration have dulled the nation's spirit. India still produces more babies than it does food to feed them. (Its population increases at the rate of about 5,000,000 a year, nullifying all gains in agricultural productivity.) Money that could help prop the economy goes into the military...
Special Techniques. The matador hovered near death, then began to gain strength slowly. This week Bienvenida was recovering. Like many of the 2,500 bullfighters, from the lowliest peones to the top matadors, whom Don Luis has treated, Bienvenida felt that no other surgeon could have saved his life...
...Customers poured in. To handle a daily turnover that increased a hundredfold, Gattegno took on 20 employees at wages remarkable for France: $250 a month for salesmen, $225 for the lowliest packer-more than three times the going rate. The first year Gattegno grossed $714,000. Moreover, said he proudly: "I pay my full taxes. I don't have two sets of books...
...long before the English could read or write." "But," she added, "of course when they did learn finally, they produced a Shakspere." She pointed out that the Irish have always had poetry in the marrow of their bones. And this is true, from the most learned scholar to the lowliest illiterate--a characteristic the Irish share with the Japanese...