Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wouldn't worry about that. At this stage, it's the social adjustment that really counts...
...hero of this novel ferries forth on the river Styx as matter-of-factly as if he were boating at a church social. Floyd Walker is a handsome, 32-year-old bank teller-and sparetime choirmaster-who has leukemia. With apologetic hems and haws, the town doctor of Ophelia, Mo. announces the sentence: three months, more or less, to live. In sleepy little Ophelia (pronounced "afailure") the drama of life has no acts, only intermissions, and Floyd is scarcely prepared for center stage in the town's morbidly engaged affections. He makes only one promise to himself: "From...
...Corbin could not persuade Willie to try the next step up on the track's social scale. "I don't want to be a jockey," Hartack kept saying. "I just want to be a good exercise...
...that uniform off me, they'll have to rip it off," Campy once said. If, as seems likely, he has been retired at 36, Campy can look back on a career to be envied. Summed up the New York Herald Tribune's Red Smith: "In the great social contribution which baseball has made to America since 1946, Jackie Robinson was the trail blazer, the standard bearer, the man who broke the color line, assumed the burden for his people and made good. Roy Campanella is the one who made friends...
...rose big, suave Prince Nicolo Pignatelli Aragona, president of Gulf's subsidiary, Gulf Italia, and tidied up the facts. "Although constantly being attacked," he said, "private enterprise is the most powerful instrument for social and economic development wherever it is given a competitive chance." Since first striking Sicilian oil in 1954 at Ragusa (where ENI had tried and failed), he pointed out that Gulf has drilled 34 holes, and that 31 of them are now producing 22,000 bbl. a day-only half of eventual capacity. In contrast, ENI's subsidiary, AGIP Mineraria, has moved into Gela...