Word: parcelled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four weeks ago they stopped trucks leaving West Berlin for Germany's West zone, demanded a toll of $75 a round trip to pay for "road upkeep." They had already cut off the Berlin-Mittelland barge canal for "repairs" and hampered railway parcel-post shipments on still another pretext. Meanwhile, Red negotiators sat down with West German officials to talk about a new trade agreement between East and West Germany...
...have sicked the Federal Trade Commission on to the publishers in an effort to stop book-club bargains (TIME, July 23). But if book-club history proves anything, it proves that the little woman is content to let someone guess what she would enjoy reading and deliver it by parcel post to her door...
That day, the farm commandant held a lottery and assigned each Huk family a house on a 2,000-sq. ft. lot and a 15-to 25-acre parcel of farm land. There were difficulties: the Huks had no money; the women did not have enough cooking utensils; there was little bedding, no mosquito nets to ward off the malaria-bearing anophele, no electric wiring in the houses. Bustling Secretary Magsaysay promptly chewed out the commander. "I promised these settlers electric lights," he roared. "If there's anything I hate it's being unable to keep my word...
...they found a depressingly recurrent pattern of "free rides" for good basketball and football players who were given "large cash payments, clothing and automobiles as inducements to enroll." The colleges, Grutzner found, do not wait around for athletes to come knocking at the door. High-pressure recruiting is part & parcel of the system of big-money college athletics...
...page package of facts ranging from Abbot (how to introduce and refer to)" to "Zones (parcel post)," the handbook may prove to be the best friend the working girl has ever had. It tells...