Word: mainstays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many a man, enforced retirement is a trying ordeal; he loses contact with colleagues who have been the mainstay of his social group, and so feels excluded and rejected. In some cases he develops a state of depression marked by listlessness, poor appetite, and an increasing number of real but unnecessary ailments that drive him to the doctor. Wives, too, can become upset by having a man underfoot all day. Dr. Wright quoted one: "I married George for life, but not for lunch." This new discord, he warned, can lead to the breakup of a long marriage...
...manure spreaders that cost $600 to 13-ton tractors selling for $36,000. Three-fourths of all farms now have at least one tractor, and some have a dozen or more; back in 1952 there were tractors on only 47% of all U.S. farms. While the tractor remains the mainstay-some 5,000,000 are in use on today's farms-the agricultural arsenal also includes 880,000 grain combines, 775,000 hay balers, 655,000 corn pickers and shelters. Virtually all of the nation's wheat, corn and sugar beets are now harvested by machine...
Perkins will find Dun & Bradstreet as complicated as a multiversity. The mainstay of the 126-year-old firm is still its credit-reporting service, whose 80,000 subscribers can get a rating on any of 3,000,000 firms. Dun & Bradstreet also publishes magazines, including Dun's Review, turns out Moody investors' manuals, is involved in plant-location studies through its recent acquisition of the Fantus Co. The Reuben H. Donnelley Corp., another subsidiary, puts out such bibles as telephone books and the Official Airline Guide. The parent company also operates a mutual fund, Moody's Fund...
...junior faculty of the junior faculty." Yet, teaching fellows bear a great deal of classroom responsibility, especially in introductory courses such as mathematics or languages. The University attaches a great deal of importance to the tutorial program as an antidote to Berkeley-like "impersonality," and teaching fellows are the mainstay of most tutorials. The teaching fellows have never tried to deny the graduate student portion of their role; why should the University try to belittle their function as teachers...
...McCandlish, the mainstay of last year's staff, twisted ligaments in his pitching shoulder playing catch with a medicine ball. He attempted to pitch in a practice game Saturday, but Harvard coach Norm "Swampfox" Sheperd says "he just didn't feel comfortable." Sheperd had been counting on McCandlish to win "at least a half-dozen games." It is now doubtful that the fast-balling senior will see any more action...