Word: sold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Those among our fellow citizens of Alabama who get hot under their galluses about the marriage of a white and a black rabbit in a children's fairy tale might profitably turn their attention to the nearest liquor store. The label of a widely sold brand of Scotch whisky shows two little dogs, black and white, and, moreover, the product is described as a "blend...
Landing a job as a reporter for the Albuquerque Herald, Anderson switched to the Albuquerque Journal, became managing editor in 1922. When a recurrence of his tuberculosis forced him out of doors, he sold insurance, in 1925 founded his own Clinton P. Anderson agency...
...night workers are herded into rude shacks to sleep on filthy gunny sacks spread on cement floors. In some cases workers who die on the job are buried, without reports being made either to a doctor or police. "Africans sent to the farms firmly believe they have been 'sold' to farmers," Carlson charged. "Police and labor officials in fact use the word thengisile-sold-when dealing with the 'volunteers...
...gifted Bolivian pianist, Jaime was reading music by the time he was four, received a violin when he was six and tuned it without help, correctly pointing out that the family piano was flat. The Laredos sold their house in Bolivia, finally settled in Philadelphia, where Jaime attended Curtis Institute of Music and studied with famed Teacher Ivan Galamian. In his rare public appearances Jaime astounded critics with his virtuoso technique and sweetly purling tone (TIME, May 21, 1956). "If you closed your eyes," wrote one critic, "it could have been Busch and Serkin...
...June 27, 1957 et seq.), aiding in overall antitrust enforcement. But Treasury and Justice oppose as too liberal bill to free Du Pont stockholders from paying regular income tax on G.M. stock when they receive it, require only payment of lower capital gains tax rate when G.M. stock is sold...