Word: scale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...both husband and wife for detailed interviews. He finds that a wife who feels insecure about her husband's love or overshadowed by his having had a previously successful marriage with children, is likely to have an insecure fetus. Often such couples rate high on the Kinsey scale of sexual activity: Dr. Javert holds that orgasm predisposes to uterine contractions and premature labor, therefore forbids intercourse during pregnancy. Granting that much remains co be learned about the workings of sex hormones, he is dead set against using stilbestrol, a synthetic drug on which many obstetricians rely heavily...
...blonde (Phffft!), a red-tressed, small-town belle (Picnic), a slum-dwelling B-girl (The Man with the Golden Arm), a golden-haired Manhattan society beauty of the '205 (The Eddy Duchin Story). In each picture, the major acting burden fell on others, while Newcomer Novak managed to scale the heights of.adequacy. Jeanne Eagels casts her in the first part that is just beyond her grasp-that of an actress. And not just any actress, but the brilliant, tempestuous Broadway deity of the teens and '20s, who ran for four years as Sadie Thompson in Rain, lived with...
...Harris, who put his entire 1,600-acre Pima County cotton farm in the soil bank in return for a $209,701 Government payment, then turned around and plowed up a new farm to grow three times as much cotton. Cried Congressman Udall: "Here is boondoggling on a grand scale. Indeed, the word boondoggling is utterly inadequate to describe this program. We should coin a new term, boonswoggling...
...American Aviation's rocket-and-ram-jet Navaho intercontinental guided missile was being washed out of the U.S. defense program. Down the drain went a project that has taken eleven years and between $500 million and $700 million to bring the Navaho within a few weeks of full-scale test flight. With it went the promise of another $1 billion in contracts for North American had the missile gone into full production...
...They pointed out that moonlighters had a higher rate of absenteeism, lower productivity. In many cities, operators of unionized companies complain because their men insist on time and a half for overtime, or double time on Sundays, but will cheerfully work in back-alley, nonunionized shops for less than scale...