Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more recent exile from Moscow, ex-Premier Georgi Malenkov, now runs a hydroelectric power station at Ust-Kamenogorsk. Uzbekistan (pop. 8,113,000), with new irrigation projects, gives Russia two-thirds of its cotton. Its capital, Tashkent, with farm-implement factories, railroad shops, textile and paper mills, clothing and shoe factories, is one of the U.S.S.R.'s biggest cities. More primitive and inaccessible are the other three republics, Tadzhikistan, Kirgizia and Turkmenistan...
...only within the last few weeks that they have begun to put on their act for pay. ("The Sahara is new for us. We used to hang out down the line a piece. The Tropicana supplies Crosby wives wholesale.") Impeccably turned out in silk suits, ruffled shirts and elevator shoes, Gary, Lindsay, Philip and Dennis Crosby bounce onstage to prove that the Groaner's kids can make it on their own. But their father is far from forgotten. "Well," growls Gary after one close-harmony number, "that's pretty good for four boys trying to get ahead without...
...Teachers College. Returning to Athens in 1955 with her journalist husband as the first Greek citizen to hold a U.S. doctorate in education, Dr. Antonakaki took a job as adviser to the Ministry of Education and began agitating for a progressive school system in Greece. Like Xenocrates' shoe, she argued, the old system was of good, polished leather but it no longer fit the foot. "Now science has invented the machine which Aristotle sought to replace the slave," she said, and instead of segregating intellectual and manual skills in separate high schools, Greece should restore the classic ideal...
...read character from voices, and who refused to put through calls from types he disliked. Still the guests came, and still they dropped into the pool. "I used to wait for them to come home and fall in," remembers Playwright Arthur Kober. "It was like waiting for a shoe to drop. I'd hear the splashes and then I'd go to sleep...
...Wall Street investment firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. astonished Lewis Strauss by offering him a job at a five-figure starting salary. A Kuhn, Loeb partner, passing through Hoover's headquarters in Paris, had spotted Strauss as a truly promising young man. He was right. Sometime Shoe Salesman Strauss prospered spectacularly on Wall Street, pushed Kuhn, Loeb into highly profitable steel-company financing (Inland, Republic, Great Lakes), became a full partner at 32, piled up a fortune...