Word: plays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play a little numbers game at our house," explained an Atlanta housewife last week. "The kids compare the prices of groceries in the market with the ones stamped on the canned soups and packages at home, to see how much they've gone up. It's a game, and about as much fun as Russian roulette...
...game that any number could play, and there was scarcely a U.S. family last week that did not feel the cold muzzle of rising prices pressed against its pocketbook. Officially, the news was told in plain statistics: the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the consumer price index had risen an average .4% between the end of May and the end of June, bringing the index factor to an all-time high of 124.5 (1947-49 average...
Then, having read the world a lesson in the kind of etiquette he expected on international visits, Nikita Khrushchev flew back to Moscow to play host, in his own inimitable fashion, to Vice President Nixon...
...fellow investigators found no evidence of a murder plot against thousands of Europeans, as the Colonial Office had alleged, and pointed out that not one single European was killed. "When the time came to prepare the justification for government policy," said the report, "the murder plot began to play a larger part." Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd used the prospects of a "blood bath" against Europeans as excuse for cracking down on Nyasaland's black African National Congress...
...Eskimo, who needed a new hair sight for his rifle, calmly dismantled his $100 wristwatch for a piece of the mainspring. In Inuvik, Indian youths with ducktail haircuts and jeans crouch over a pool table, while their girl friends in ribboned pony tails and candy-striped toreador pants play A Teenager in Love on the jukebox...