Word: rose
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...France's navy, have been busy building bunkers, laying airstrips, deepening Tahiti's harbor and extending its piers. Last week, the job completed on schedule, French Admiral Jean Lorain gave the order from aboard his flagship, the cruiser De Grasse, and an irregular black mushroom rose above Mururoa lagoon...
...credit has curbed not only housebuilding, but also corporate expansion, the principal base of the long economic advance. Construction starts of new factories slipped by $500 million, or 61% , in the latest count, which covers the first quarter of the year. Between January and March the gross national product rose by a worrisome $17 billion, which would work out to 91% a year; during the second quarter, it climbed by a less inflationary $10 billion, or 5.5% a year. Ackley and other White House economists expect the economy to expand at only about half that rate for the rest...
Leon Shimkin, a voluble and supremely confident Brooklyn bookkeeper who rose to become a major force in the publishing business, delights in inventing words. One of his favorites is "bookazine," meaning a soft-cover book marketed like a magazine. Putting that word to work, Shimkin and three other men in 1939 founded his Pocket Books, Inc., the world's most voluminous softback-book producer, with an annual sale of $20 million from its 20% slice of the mass paperback market in the U.S. Another Shimkin word is "biblio-therapeutic," meaning books that help people. With such books, notably Dale...
...sentimental Duke is clothed in rich blue and green brocade, and the garments of his companions are equally handsome, Olivia, in mourning for her brother, wears brown and black, and carries a conical parasol. Her conniving uncle Sir Today, a toper, is a monstrous barrel of rose wine come to life, with a wide sash just barely able to function as a hoop to keep the barrel from bursting. The foolish Sir Andrew is dothed in an orange and claret that are subtly incompatible...
...square peg in the play's round hole, wears a long black gown and sports a moustache and goatee, looking for all the world as though he had just been sitting for a sober portrait by Van Dyck or Rembrandt. Feste the Clown is dressed in pink and rose, and makes use of hand-pup-sets. The earnest Viola first appears is dark gold; but when she disguises herself as the page Cesario, both she and her twin brother Sebatian (each believing the other drowned) are clothed in white-ruffed cerulean, exuding the purity of Gainsborough's "Blue...