Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...under treatment for pneumonia of an unusual character." The doctor suspected psittacosis (parrot fever), and was right. It turned out that the patient, a laborer living in a skid row hotel, had been hired to help treat sick turkeys at a 7,000-bird farm on Sauvie Island. With proper antibiotic treatment the laborer is recovering, but 2,000 of the turkeys died. Of 1,500 turkeys at a smaller farm near Scappoose, 250 died...
...countryside came to life with urgent Iranian cries and the lighting of torches, the wolf raced into the village proper. By dawn there were 16 more victims. At last, the animal was killed by a peasant armed with a mattock...
Bizmac's operator needs only to press the proper buttons, and Bizmac's 25 electric tapewriters will clack out pages ready for offset photography. Able as it is, Bizmac is only the prototype of even better computers that will be capable of running entire factories. Tomorrow's great brain will start up machinery, feed in raw materials, switch from one product to the next as orders come in, convey parts to assembly lines, put them together, inspect, box, band and load finished products into freight cars and trucks...
Britain's New Realism, about as delicate as a cockney costermonger's anecdote, has been rated a "cult of squalidity" by some proper Britons, who think crockery should remain belowstairs. But to date it has already produced a burgeoning handful of new talent. Among Painter Middleditch's contemporaries...
...Communism, is personified in Alden Pyle, member of a U.S. economic mission. He is the "quiet American"-a Harvard man, young, innocent, good, humorless, a Unitarian. He speaks in the hortatory Emily Post style which all British novelists since Max Beerbohm seem to think is the native speech of proper Bostonians. He eats "Vit-Health" sandwich-spread that his mother sends him. He is courageous and dedicated, but his eager virtue turns into fumbling crime. His idealistic dabbling in Indo-Chinese politics-he furnishes a plastic bomb to a local faction-becomes real blood on his shoes. "I must...