Word: richer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...city hall makes a striking addition to Edmonton's fast-climbing skyline. Riding a surge of prosperity that began when U.S. servicemen poured north in World War II to man the land route to Alaska and the air route to the Soviet Union, the city tapped a far richer bonanza in the oil boom that blew in ten years ago and gets bigger every year...
...family and moves with haughty assurance from painting to the piano to whatnot, casually giving them up in turn and winding up in her old age as a Red Sox fan. But not even Honora can stay in the same league with old Cousin Justina, who is richer still (she married a five-and-dime prince) and dominates the lives of a little circle of pathetic hangers-on who are dependent upon her charity. When she discovers that Leander's son Moses is making nightly trips across the roof of the huge house to her ward's bedroom...
Attacking Manion's conception of a future world government, Thomas said, regarding the possible subjugation of the richer America to the demands of the poorer peripheral countries, that in the U.S. "the poor have robbed the rich very unsuccessfully." Thomas said that new issues and problems have come up since 1933, which required a more liberal interpretation of the constitution...
...Rich Get Richer. In Jerusalem, dejected after his wife presented him with twin girls. Raymond Zetoun, already a jobless father of three, grumpily decided to name them "No Alternative" and "What Can I Do?", finally was persuaded to substitute "Good Morning" and "Good Night...
...original Eisenhower Colorado landscape; the wealthy monarch's gift to Ike was a well-guarded secret. No secret was the King's enormous gratitude for the way Americans had opened their arms to Saud's lame little son (see below). The King himself was the richer, materially, in five pairs of eyeglasses, which he ordered after an eye examination at Walter Reed Hospital...