Word: lows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such choices, Schlesinger reads a "revolt of the low-level professional within the party organization against the New Deal and post-New Deal leadership . . . Anti-eggheadism is certainly part of the story. Another part of the story is an anti-Ivy League feeling which has been rankling for many years in the murky lower depths of the Democratic Party in the Northeast...
These popular two ballads by themselves made Service rich. In successive books-Ballads of a Cheechako, Rhymes of a Rolling Stone, Lyrics of a Low Brow -he paid repeated respects to his own talents as a versifier and an avid public's eagerness to read manly far northern rhymes such as these...
...British reactor experts were not impressed. The Soviet reactor is remarkable chiefly for its size. In other respects it is oldfashioned, using graphite as moderator, and ordinary water for-cooling. Its operating temperature, 180° C (356° F.), is low and therefore inefficient for power production. Soviet Delegation Chief Vasily Emelyanov practically admitted that the reactor is a dual purpose one whose primary job is making plutonium for nuclear explosives...
...average American's attitude toward cars changing, with more interest in low-cost transportation than in the appearance of the car? Such theories, said Donner, "were just rationalizations for not 'buying a car. Lots of this sort of attitude would change overnight if economic conditions change, especially if we have a fresh new product-and speaking for G.M., we are going to have a fresh new product...
...most heavily traded stocks on the New York Stock Exchange last week was that of a little Philadelphia rug firm, the Artloom Carpet Co. From a low of $3.75 a share earlier this year, Artloom has soared to a high of $27.63, even though Artloom's business has been as threadbare as a boardinghouse hall carpet. Last week the Securities and Exchange Commission lifted the rug to see what went on, found an old familiar face in an old familiar pattern of action...