Word: specialize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...guaranteed $50 billion worth of low-interest loans to help buy 5,700,000 homes, 73,000 farms, 237,000 small businesses. Riding a gravy train, 8,500,000 joined the "52-20 Club," by 1949 spent up to 52 weeks (average: 19) drawing $20 a week in special unemployment pay. Says Seattle Teacher Otto N. Larsen, 34, onetime B-29 instructor: "I think a lot of us got embarrassed over the loot we got from the Government...
...Large Appetites. In the clinic's rigidly controlled tests, the cottonseed oil was a special brand that could be used as a spread on bread and emulsified in a blender with nonfat milk solids to make "milk," "cream" or "ice cream," thus permitting a normally varied menu. But this was a matter of taste and convenience, not medical necessity. The ordinary commercial oils, say Drs. Page and Brown, "are excellent for cooking and baking"; also, "two or three teaspoons added to each serving of a low-fat food convert it to a satisfying, flavorful product." Large appetites...
...Little Sisters of the Friendless are the only witnesses who can back up the murder suspect's alibi. But they cannot leave their convent to come to court; their vows forbid it. What is more, their reverend mother cannot even ask the mother general in Paris for special permission; the reverend mother has forgotten her French. And unless someone can get the nuns out of the cloister, the monosyllabic police lieutenant is prepared to see the suspect strapped into the electric chair. Enter Private Detective Peter Gunn...
Actually, the show's special appeal is neither sex nor standard whodunit suspense. The audience is rarely kept guessing about who scragged the rich widow or shot the human fly. All Peter Gunn's have to do is wince while their man absorbs his beatings. Usually they know did what to whom, and they can be that Pete will survive with his features unscrambled. While the mayhem builds up though, the show offers a fine sound track. Jazzman Henry Mancini, who boasts some 50 movie credits, composes scores for each show, leads leman band through a whining, insinuating...
Belloc's faith shines through all his correspondence, but the special sparkle of the letters comes from Belloc's "great lifebuoy of humour, which is a sort of sister or companion aid to the Faith." In his gloomiest moods he could break off to twit a friend whom he had caught in a split infinitive...