Word: riche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...September-Faubus won the primary, thus is slated to be the second man ever to spend three terms in the Arkansas Governor's chair. In a record turnout he defeated two opponents, won a historic 68% of the vote, carried every one of the 75 counties, from the rich, black Delta, heavily populated with Negroes, to the northwestern mountain counties, where Negroes make up only a tiny minority of the population...
Both Des Todes Tod and its successor on the program, Die Serenaden--a little cantata on Romantic texts for soprano, oboe, viola and violoncello--approached Hindemith's orchestral ideal of thick texture, rich tone and extensive contrapuntal treatment, with each instrument going its separate way. In "Der Wurm am Meer" in the second group of pieces in Die Serenaden, all four elements had different melodies that combined to form a coherent and colorful whole. Such terms might be used to describe the whole program...
...Whoever Got Rich?" What the banks bit on was as airy a bit of corporate superstructure as any schoolboy could dream up during a dull study period. The son of a middling prosperous shoe merchant, Belle declined an offer to go in his father's business ("Whoever got rich fitting shoes?"). Instead, he started out legitimately enough as a co-founder of the Eastern Investment and Development Corp., formed to specialize in industrial uplift of moribund towns; he helped revive tiny (pop. 1,800) Saltsburg, Pa. with a campaign that attracted three new industries with a payroll of about...
...first ran into stormy weather when Capital started losing money in 1956, partly because of its expensive turboprops, partly because of an inherently bad short-haul route structure that gave Capital none of the rich transcontinental market. But his biggest trouble was with Capital's general counsel and biggest stockholder (64,420 shares), Charles Murchison, 58, who looked askance at the way Carmichael ran Capital as a one-man air show, wanted more of a team operation. Last summer Murchison and his backers brought in Major General David H. Baker as president and chief executive officer (TIME...
...enthusiastic forward, explains: "If we take a look at what goes on inside people, we glimpse a moiling of flabby, many-tentacled evasions . . . Roll away the stone of the commonplace and we find running discharges, slobberings, mucous; hesitant amoeba-like movements. [Nathalie Sarraute's] vocabulary is incomparably rich in suggesting the slow, centrifugal creeping of these viscous, live solutions...