Word: main
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...farm at Nucla, Colo. Jim worked on farms, took odd jobs to earn extra money, paid his way through Western State College of Colorado, wound up with a Depression-days job selling typewriters. "Jim was a terrific salesman," says a longtime acquaintance. "He has always had a tendency for main-chancing...
...vast, stunning edifice in the form of a fish. Though not fashioned on such a preconception ("This interpretation was made after the design"), the shape honors an old symbol* that early Christians, pushed underground for their heretical beliefs, defiantly scratched on the walls of the Catacombs. Harrison's main purpose in using the design was to avoid inner supports and thus provide an unimpaired view. The sloping walls of the sanctuary, which is 60 ft. high at its peak, support each other; the principle is the same as that which causes a piece of firm paper to stand when...
...experimental dance technology, Moiseyev brilliantly scrapped most of the cliché-laden movements and figures of Russian classical ballet, while retaining classical techniques of body control. Moreover, Moiseyev did away with the traditional counterpoint between soloist and corps de ballet, made mass dancing the ballet's main feature ("My hero," says Moiseyev, "is the masses...
...increase in the labor force in February, when the labor force normally shows no increase. Thus, a huge part of the jobless rise was not due to layoffs; it was due to the fact that teenagers, wives and old folks went looking for jobs (generally unsuccessfully) when the main breadwinner was laid off, adding to the statistical unemployed...
...Idleness" in the village square, the town greybeards sipped Turkish coffee and played a sempiternal game of cards. To Durrell's knowledge no one ever died, and the town gravedigger had to eke out a living digging cesspits. Each day toward twilight, a dozen cattle burst across the main street at racehorse pace, urged on by a bearded Hercules. He looked "like some dispossessed character from the Homeric cycle, who had yoked the oxen...