Word: sorting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...memory. Fifty years ago its five boroughs-Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and The Bronx-were joined into one big city. But most of its citizens are vaguely surprised at plans for celebrating this golden anniversary-starting with a monster parade up Fifth Avenue next week. They leave this sort of historic memory to Philadelphia, at which they jeer; to Boston, which they pity; Or to Atlanta, a place near Miami, and where the Civil War was fought. New York is hypnotized by the present-which, after all, is equipped with television and a big bull market for men, foam...
...refuses to indulge in dramatics. His automobiles-a black Cadillac and a black Plymouth sedan-bear no special licenses, no big red lights. "I don't like topside in government getting special favors," he says, "the peasants jumping out of the way and all that. I think people sort of like that stuff-but it's bad for them. Government should permeate. It shouldn't crush...
...knew what she liked-and thought other women would too. She added sections for women, tied in the covers to fashion features, saw that every issue had "female appeal." Look began capturing women readers. "Before," says Fleur, "it was bought by two million men, and women read it sort of by inheritance...
That was just the sort of thing this particular delegation would notice. They were some of the 40 crack teen-age spellers, the pick of four million schoolkids from all over the U.S., in Washington for the 21st annual Scripps-Howard National Spelling Bee. The prize ($500) looked almost as big as some of the words they would be asked to spell...
...meanest man in the medical profession?" Last week the New York State Journal of Medicine thought it had found the man, even if it was too polite to mention his name. "Nothing but the sternest sort of conscience would persuade us to publish such a comment ... on a colleague," said the editors...