Word: lurked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...makes a determined effort at total autobiography. The list of her male conquests seems to stretch to infinity: lawyers, politicians, theatrical agents, Wall Street brokers, film magnates, judges, operatic tenors, Mexican wrestlers, French importers, chorus boys, casual diners in a restaurant. Readers may get the impression that lovers lurk under every bed, in every closet, behind every curtain. Some of them showered Mae with diamonds, emeralds and furs. Others gave more of themselves. Of a fellow named Ted, Mae sighs: "I had experienced other men who performed as ardent lovers, but never for a period of 15 hours." One suitor...
...past six months, stock yields are still higher and price-earnings ratios lower than in the U.S. The analysts found plenty of reasons why U.S. investors need to be sophisticated in buying European securities. Tax laws and accounting systems differ; dangers of nationalization and freezing of capital still lurk in some countries; many European companies have yet to adopt the U.S. attitude that the stockholders have every right to look at the books. In Leverkusen, West Germany, the analysts spent two futile hours trying to get profit and sales information from reluctant officials of the big Bayer chemical company...
...Seesaw. The story that might lurk behind a couple of want ads (Apartments, Furnished), showing the emotional wants, woes and laughs of a couple of cliff dwellers in Manhattan...
...such, Titan presages the day when all long-range missiles will lurk beneath the earth, invisible and well-nigh invulnerable to enemy attack. The sunken silo at Vandenberg is only one part of a subterranean complex under construction as Titan's first "hard base." Adjoining the missile tank are other sunken cylinders (see diagram), housing air-conditioning and hydraulic equipment, a power station, liquid oxygen and fuel tanks, and a command control center for the launch crew. Tunnels connect the widely dispersed elements, but after the alert, only the control center will be occupied. Remotely controlled, the monster, fueled...
...Harrisburg, Ike switched from whirlybird to his own comfortable four-engined Super Constellation Columbine III for the easy drone over to New York and his talk to the American Management Association. Since hazards still lurk in machines, the President prudently keeps the Vice President from boarding the same plane with him, even though the two are, as they were last week, landing in the same city about the same time. But in New York Ike picked up another traveling companion, Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, visited with his old soldier comrade while the pair shuttled easily across...