Word: mum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...toothy piano player; in a land where sex has become so naughty-fied that its outflow has been redirected to the channel of physical violence; where nice girls are taught early that it is legal to tease but evil to please . . . it might be more discreet to observe a mum respect for the pragmatic, clearheaded and honest Swedes. It might also be revealing to compare their and our records in the above-mentioned areas of crime. For when you come right down to it, we've made a dreadful botch of sex right here at home...
...After two years in the job, Joseph H. McConnell. 49, resigned as president of Colgate-Palmolive Co. Though both Colgate Chairman E. H. Little and McConnell were mum on the reason, trade gossip had it that they disagreed on basic company policy. Said McConnell: "I plan to go fishing...
...productivity, better pensions, a better health plan and other fringe benefits. Estimated total cost to G.M. : as much as $1 billion yearly. G.M.'s Harry Anderson said the first meeting was harmonious, that the company will do "the best we can to get a satisfactory settlement," but kept mum on what G.M. thought of the U.A.W. offer and what its counteroffer will...
What was the high-powered team hired to do? Convair was mum. But there was no doubt that the experts would help Convair design air frames for nuclear-powered planes and aid in building Atlas, the intercontinental ballistic missile...
FIRST NUCLEAR REACTOR for the Air Force is in operation at Convair's Fort Worth plant. While mum on what the reactor is being developed for, Convair is aiming at something besides an atom-powered bomber. All the Air Force will let Convair say is that its engineers "are working toward the adaption of nuclear energy to the development of other weapons systems...