Word: opener
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would soon succeed Labor as the chief opposition party -a prediction that overlooked the fact that more than 40% of British voters stuck by Labor through the sweep. But the fact remained that for Britain's 53-year-old Labor Party it was a staggering defeat, threatening to open never-healed wounds, confronting Labor's leaders with the hard fact that Britain's citizens want no more socialism...
...session. The following year, when tax inspectors handed him a bill for nearly $8,000 in back taxes, Roden, unable to pay, remembered the dying days of World War II, when he kept his retreating Wehrmacht unit in meat by slaughtering cattle in the open fields of East Prussia. With Ewald Mischker, 48, a Düsseldorf stockyard worker, as his accomplice, Roden began to prey on the North German range...
...public chose Cacareco as an image of solidarity symbolizing the Sunday family outing to the zoo." Brazil's politicians knew better. Partly, it was pure orneriness. It was also an expression of anger at local officials, who have done nothing about the city's unpaved streets and open sewers. And since those officials were members of the coalition that elected President Juscelino Kubitschek, they also took the rap for Brazil's rising prices and the shortages of such basic commodities as beans and beef...
...puts the U.S. in fourth place as a source of new Canadian residents, behind Italy, Britain and Germany. By any standards, the U.S. immigrant has a high quality. The day is over when U.S. farmers, homesteaders and adventurers (50,000 in 1920) hurried north to help open a new land. Last year, only 54 of those admitted were classed as laborers; the new U.S. immigrant is a stable, older man, usually with a family and a nest egg, who moves to Canada's densely populated areas (in order of 1958 rank: Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia, Alberta) to provide...
...Bond stood with his foot poised against the outboard escape door, which would open when pressure inside and out was equalized. After 25 seconds, he felt it give, and yelled: "On the bottom!" Tuckfield closed the air inlet. They were now up to their necks in water, and breathing air at a pressure of about ten atmospheres, 134 p.s.i. above normal. Instead of being searing hot, as they had feared, it proved comfortably warming. But there was no time to enjoy it. Not a second could be lost, or they would begin to suffer nitrogen poisoning-Jacques Yves Cousteau...