Word: mercerize
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...Observer, shirking administrative duties but excelling as an editorial writer who advocated a non-confrontational approach to integrating the South during the 1950s and 1960s. Daniels also wrote more than a dozen books, including two that were the first in-depth accounts of F.D.R.'s romance with Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd...
...America's nonfarm workers over age 25. Unlike Social Security, private pension plans are not directly affected by the problem of the aging labor force because companies build up their employees' retirement funds during the employees' working years. Explains Barnet Berin, of William M. Mercer, a New York-based compensation consulting firm: "The private pension system puts in contributions that are invested over the years prudently to build up reserves sufficient to make the payout. The fact that the population ages does not really matter. Even though there is a smaller working population and a larger retired...
...ruptured eardrum. Fellow Veteran Steve Richards, 27, also of Detroit, said he received a 13-stitch leg wound there. The two joined another pair of Ranger sailors in suing the Navy for brutality and violation of their rights. A third suit may be filed by the Rev. Robert Mercer and his wife of Detroit. The body of Mercer's stepson Bernal Johnson, 21, was found in a Philippine river on April 24, two days after he escaped from a CCU at the Subic Bay Naval Base. An autopsy showed "possible marks of violence" around the neck. Mercer suspects naval...
...labels on everything in sight and endlessly repeated them. New York's mayor was always "fireplug-shaped Fiorello La Guardia"; the city's newspaper, in a phrase that combined admiration with gentle sarcasm, was "the good gray New York Times." So familiar was this practice that Johnny Mercer parodied it in a Broadway show tune, Affable, Balding Me. TIME'S double-barreled labels came to a quiet end when a later managing editor, T.S. Matthews, forbade the use of them unless a writer could improve upon Carlyle's description of Robespierre as "the seagreen Incorruptible...
...Broadway's Lunt-Fontanne Theater, but no one need fear anything more drastic than delight. Sophisticated Ladies has no book and seems not to need one. It relies on incendiary dancing, notably tap, an onstage Big Band blast under the baton of Duke Ellington's son Mercer, and some 36 of the Duke's tunes of seductive genius...