Word: rugged
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Construction Tycoon Hal Hayes, who has a built-in bar in his Cadillac, plus faucets for Scotch, bourbon, champagne and beer in his home, proudly showed off his newest wrinkle: a heavy, green, living-room rug, which rolls, like a window blind in reverse, up a glass wall at the press of a button. Said Hayes: "At Hiroshima and Nagasaki, windows blew out and lots of people were killed by glass. [The rug] catches it. Since the rug is so heavy, it stops gamma rays and neutrons as well...
...fellow TV technicians, has sold some 15,000 copies at $1 each. It assumes that repairmen normally meet housewives on their visits, and urges them to dress neatly, be cheerful and courteous, avoid body odor, wipe their shoes, show friendly interest in the customer (e.g., "This is a beautiful rug") and "always give the appearance of knowing what you're doing." The booklet sets up and knocks down some touchy problems...
...World closed, Shirley camp-followed her husband through the South until 1945, then returned to Manhattan for her first musical, Hollywood Pinafore, in which she played the part of a gossip columnist called Louhedda Hopsons. During the war years, Shirley, who is an expert dancer, cut many a rug at the Stage Door Canteen...
...after that on the Pennsylvania Railroad's Congressional Limited. The Pennsy, blushing with pleasure, supplied standard lounge-car chairs from the Congressional, along with the road's finest glassware and all the other trappings. At the last minute someone noticed that the club car had no Pennsy rug. Executives of the railroad found they had none in Washington storage. Miss Rountree's friends knew what to do about that: they threatened to get a rug from the B. & O. Harried Pennsymen stripped a rug from a car standing in the Washington yards, and the club...
Never in the union's 17-year history had it and Big Steel dickered in such an atmosphere of reasonableness. The company, which had originally taken a "no raise" stand, had the rug pulled out from under it by the auto industry's unexpected raises two years ahead of contract expiration (TIME, June 1). On labor's side, McDonald wanted no strike in his first test as leader of the 1,100,000-member union. When Stephens, who at first offered 5? an hour, said that 8½? in wages and ½? in fringe benefits...