Word: shaded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...revenues). Iran not only lacks capital to pay this, but probably will not even be able to raise the $60 million needed annually for the company's operations. Mossadeq will not compromise on anything he considers a basic issue, but even his attitude last week seemed just a shade softer...
...Starlight Roof of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria recognized this as the voice of the U.S. State Department. The members of Manhattan's China Institute, which for 25 years had devoted itself to the nonpartisan cause of closer friendship between the Chinese and American people, represented every shade of opinion on the Far East themselves, but none had expected Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs Dean Rusk to speak with such firmness...
...front, a mess of chromium inside, and an easily evident juke box," he wrote, "what you get to eat would poison an ostrich . . . They will take a perfectly good horse-burger out of the freezer, and it comes to the customer, after subjection to the stove, a deep shade of grey and curled at the edges . . . There is no law which says that a roll or a piece of bread must be kept in the refrigerator and served stark and chilled, but there is a general suspicion that heating a biscuit is punishable by fine and imprisonment . . . I have observed...
...March 17, 1914, College Hall, the center of the campus, burned down. There has been lots of emphasis on fire drills since. So around that day of Marsh, the college holds a midnight fire drill. It's the only time a Wellesley girl is told to pull up the shade and keep her door open. She must also grab one valuable thing, even if it's not her roommate. Teddy bears are discouraged. By the by, the girls all have the presence of mind to grab a coat too; so don't come out expecting too much...
...milking, he was a whiz when it came to moneymaking. He was still a teen-ager when he organized a wood & coal business and set teams of schoolboys to doing farm work for him. While his pals labored, Edward perched on a rail fence or reclined in the shade reading a book...