Word: rowes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tomatoes were cheaper-in fact, nearly all food was cheaper-but no matter how it juggled the figures, the Bureau of Labor Statistics came up last week with the sad news that the Government's Consumer Price Index inched upward in September for the 13th month in a row. The new mark was one-tenth of 1% over August, for a record high...
Politicians are acting like old grads when the eleven loses two games in a row. By all means shoot Eisenhower, Engine Charlie, the Chiefs of Staff, the scientists, even Harry Truman and Eleanor Roosevelt. We can still deliver the ultimate weapon, too, by a missile of shorter range from a plane, from a submarine, or just in an old-fashioned suitcase smuggled across a border...
...permitted by law and "such carryover [should] be removed from consideration when establishing prices in the marketplace." Its economic meaning: the farmer should get top subsidies even while commanding top market prices. Its political meaning: whatever the cost to the taxpayer, Midwestern Democrats plan to leave no political row unplowed in their work toward a bumper vote crop...
...vaudeville joke In addition to being the butt of tired jokes, Newark (pop. 465.600) used to be a sprawling municipal Skid Row choking in its own web of rail lines, express high ways and traffic-snarled streets. The sun, rising above Manhattan's skyscrapers ten miles away, glinted off broken bottles in the ring of slums pressing in on Newark's business district. A daily flood of commuters poured in-doubling the population-then poured back into the suburbs. At night those who remained in the city saw the streets grow sullen and creepy...
...performance. During an emotional scene, the aging hero of the play is talking sadly of the young girl he loves; he faces away from the stage and, in a disillusioned tone of voice, says, "I thought she liked me--you know what I mean" A woman in the tenth row Tuesday evening replied in perfect rhythm, exactly as loudly as the hero's line, in exactly the same living room tone, in exactly the same New York middle class voice, "Yeah...